Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lloyd Mckini Garrison Prize...
...station is located on Agar's Island, near the entrance to Hamilton Harbor. This island contains about three acres of land, and has numerous substantial buildings. It was formerly used by the British government for the storage of ammunitions of war, and for the accommodation of the necessary garrison. It has been secured by the Bermuda History Society for the purposes of a public acquarium and a station for biological research...
Second place in the Magazine is given to an unsigned biographical sketch of the late Wendell Phillips Garrison, who was editor of the Nation from 1865 to 1906. The high service to American letters which the Nation has performed since its establishment, is shown to have been due in large measure to Mr. Garrison's scrupulous fidelity, his success in enlisting the friendly co-operation of a large and able staff of contributors, and his constant striving toward literary perfection in form and substance...
...four poems the most powerful is undoubtedly Mr. R. E. Rogers' "Tschaikowsky," which has been awarded the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize. All of the verse is distinguished by unaccustomed lucidity. Mr. J. S. Reed's "Bacchanal", which might fairly be called a fine poem, has considerable charm, though, it occasionally falls into some of the faults to which this species of writing is liable...
...prize of $100 is the income of a fund given by the class of 1888, in memory of Lloyd McKim Garrison of that class, who was prominent as an editor and poet...