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Dean Ames of the Law School introduced the speaker, who began by showing that when free speech and free learning were prohibited in the South as a whole, they were preserved in the mountain districts of Eastern Kentucky by the abolitionist pioneers. Berea College was founded during the Civil War and thirty-nine years ago negroes were admitted. Its first work was to assist the process of reconstruction and to start the negro in his new life...
...Garrison '88, for four years an editor of the Harvard CRIMSON, died on Thursday at Lenox, Mass. A grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist, he inherited great literary and legal ability. His father was Wendell Phillips Garrison '61, editor of the New York Nation. He was born in Orange, N. J., on May 4, 1867, entered Harvard in 1884, and was a member of the University for seven years, taking his degree from the Law School in 1891. He was connected with the CRIMSON all through his college course, being Managing Editor in 1886, and President at the time...
Johns Hopkins University has received a valuable gift in the shape of a collection of a thousand volumes and pamphlets on slavery from Gen. William Birney, of Washington, son of J. G. Birney, the great abolitionist...
...that of all who graduated only six were left to attend the sixtieth anniversary. Two have died during the past year. Those present Thursday evening were: Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rev. Dr. S. F. Smith, author of the hymn "America"; Rev. Samuel May, class secretary and a prominent abolitionist before the war; Rev. Dr. Stickney, of Royalton, Vt.; Rev. A. S. Devens, of Boston, and Charles Storrow, who is president of the class organization...
...profession for several years, not since 1852, when elected treasurer of the gas company. In 1859 and 1871 he served in the senate, and also rendered valuable assistance on the Cambridge Water Board. Deceased was a son of the late Judge Howe of Northampton and was a strong abolitionist...