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Liberalism is not so plentiful in the U. S. but that three generations of it in one family are noteworthy. A white-haired lady who died suddenly last week at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., aged 83, was the only daughter of William Lloyd Garrison, the Boston man by whose eloquence and persistence the Abolition movement attained national proportions before the Civil War. Today her son, Oswald Garrison Villard, is editor of the Nation, liberal weekly...
Small Fanny Garrison helped her father correct proofs for many an issue of The Liberator. She was with him when he conferred about freeing the slaves with John Brown, Wendell Phillips, Samuel...
...Villard acquired the New York Evening Post, then a great liberal organ, in 1881. She also owned the Nation, which was edited by Wendell Phillips Garrison, her brother, from 1865 to 1906. In 1900, her husband died. Thereafter, her sons and daughter having grown up, she devoted herself thoroughly to the sort of causes it was in her blood to champion...
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...
...universities heard the verdict. Harvard won, 93 to 117, the scoring being done as in a cross country race (one point for the best examination paper, 20 points for the worst). Two Harvard undergraduates-Nathan M. Pusey of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and James L. McLane of Garrison, Md.-finished first and second. Yale's best, George T. Washington of Detroit, great -grandnephew of Father -of -His -Country George Washington, finished third. Harvard's reward is $5,000 worth of books given by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard...