The Days of a Ma?i 1917 



Abolitionist leader) to make arrangements. For a 

 dozen or so fellows said to be more or less under the 

 influence of liquor then rushed in, forcing the 

 owner and his associates to withdraw, after which 

 they threw eggs about, overturned chairs, and scat- 

 tered books. 



Brent Dow Allinson, chairman of the committee, 

 an unusually able and attractive youth, was after- 

 ward subjected to grossly unjust and trying persecu- 

 tion, the details of which I need not here relate. 

 in Boston On Wednesday evening I spoke in Ford Hall under 

 the auspices of Professor Harry P. Ward of Boston 

 University, John F. Moors, Mrs. Glendower Evans, 

 and the Rev. W. Harris Crook. An apparently sym- 

 pathetic audience filled the room, but except for the 

 Boston Journal, the papers gave scant and incorrect 

 accounts of the affair. 



At noon next day a meeting took place in Faneuil 

 Hall, the old cradle of liberty dating from 1742 and 

 containing a fine portrait of Washington as well as 

 other reminders of the early days of the Republic. 

 The building being located in the center of traffic, 

 this gathering consisted of people called in from the 

 street by handbills scattered about. During the 

 course of my talk I directed attention to the portrait 

 of the man who by means of a Joint Commission 

 had postponed and prevented war with the French 

 Republic, recalling that as epitaph he asked for one 

 short sentence only: 



Here lies John Adams, who averted war with France. 



At Yale From Boston I went to Yale University, where as 

 a guest of Dr. William Lyon Phelps I was to address 

 an undergraduate audience under the auspices of the 



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