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Coincident with the release of Mr. Brand's alibi, Dr. Harry Augustus Garfield, president of Williams College and during the War, chairman of the Fair Price Committee, issued a statement: "Mr. Hoover had absolutely no part in this matter...
When Frank Bartlette Willis was a young school teacher, college student and professor of history and economics at Ohio Northern University (Ada, Ohio), the great political names in Ohio were McKinley, Hanna, Foraker, Hay. President Garfield's sons were still on the scene. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury, Senator, Secretary of State, did not die until 1900. Ohio politics was a vivid mixture of business (two parts), religion (two parts) and state pride (one part). The twin veins of politics and religion in Mark Hanna appeared as twin veins of business and religion in Ohio's great...
...following men also spoke in the contest: F. E. Shea '29, on the "Reply to Corry" by Henry Grattan; G. A. Weller '29 on the Medea of Euripides: T. N. Stensland '28 on "Nominating John Sherman" by James A. Garfield; A. D. Howlett '28, on "Plea for the Old South Church" by Wendell Phillips; Theodore Hall '29, on "The Death of Socrates" by Plato; T. H. Eliot '28 on "The Mystic Trumpeter" by Walt Whitman...
Willis has never been a pussyfooter. He is dry in theory and practice, and a born leader of men. In this, his home town, in a room where he taught rhetoric and grammar, and where he inspired students as did Garfield at Hiram, Ohio, there was organized the Willis-for-President Club. Those present and forming the club were of every political complexion and religious creed. Its slogan is, "The Largest Willis-for-President Club in the State...
...house of the Garfield period in Portland, Me., a dead tree, and a brick wall, all uninteresting objects from an artistic point of view, can make a most expressive picture is well shown in a painting by Edward Hopper, which has been done quite recently...