Word: abolitionists
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...several colleges there has lately been a discussion on the feasibility of abolishing the distinction between major and minor sports and of awarding the letter to all men who have played on a university team. The accompanying press clipping from the Yale News is indicative of the abolitionist attitude while an interview with William J. Bingham, Director of Athletics, running elsewhere in the paper presents the argument for the retention of the present system...
...State. By the time his family is grown up he owns or controls the whole Black River Valley. The local aristocracy will not accept him, but he scorns them; it is his ambition to found his own line. His sons are a disappointment: Henry, the elder, is bookish, an Abolitionist to boot. He and his father rub each other the wrong way. Bascom is almost too much like the old man for his peace of mind: many a farmer husband hates him, and with reason. When Henry brings home his wife Rose from Boston, the old man takes...
Kathleen Norris, 49, novelist, clubwoman, war-abolitionist, feminist, is married to Author Charles Gilman Norris (Salt, Brass, Bread). She has one son of her own, Frank (two daughters have died), but in the summer the Norrises' 200-acre ranch at Saratoga, Calif, houses a cheerful bedlam of children?wards, cousins, children from miles around needful of home life and a good time. Among other fauna at the Norris ranch are children of Poet Columnist William Rose Benet whose first wife was Mrs. Norris's sister, the late Teresa Frances Thompson...
Engagement Broken. Mariquita Villard, niece of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation), great granddaughter of famed Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison; and Louis Warren Hill Jr., son of Chairman Louis Warren Hill of the Great Northern R. R. directorate; by mutual consent...
...while Lee was on leave at Arlington, a rabid Abolitionist named John Brown, with five Negroes and thirteen whites, stormed and captured Harper's Ferry Arsenal. Terror and violence were in the air. A small band of militia attacked; Brown held his own. The next day relief came, the U. S. Marines! At their head rode Colonel Robert E. Lee. The arsenal was recaptured. Brown, whose soul was to go marching on, was captured...