BLACKWELL FAMILY              SUBJECT FILE                   Biographical papers
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL                                             TRIBUTESJune 24 1938     56
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A NOBLE LADY
      I should like to speak to you to-day about a 
noble, frail old lady who, in September of this year,
will be eighty-one. If you read the liberal press, or
watch the letter-columns of the more important daily
newspapers, you may have seen her name signed to occasional
communications -- communications always of a
humanitarian nature. Ever since girlhood she has carried
on the liberal traditions of a noted father and a
famous mother. In herself she unites the qualities that 
made her parents the outstanding citizens that they were.
I can think of few women in contemporary America who have
deserved more of their communities and who -- I fear --
have received less.
     Not that this outstanding American sounds any
complaints against her fellow-citizens for neglect of herself.
She is much more likely to chide them for neglecting
their duties toward humanity. Herself, for all her
frailness, for all the misfortunes that have attended
her, she remains a bulwark of optimism, of courage, of
devotion, in a world that for the nonce seems bent on
self-destruction. She has been cheated of money that had
been saved up for her old age; she has lost her sight at
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her unceasing labors; she has lost her health; but never
her hope for a better humanity.
     A Gentile, she early became interested in the
cause of the Jews, even to the point of translating Yiddish
poetry into English.
     An American, she early associated herself with
the cause of freedom all over the world, even to the point
of interesting herself in Armenian culture.
     America, moreover, to her meant not only the
land that lies above the Rio Grande, but the cluster of 
nations that lies below. She had done much to interpret,
for us of the North, the culture of the Spanish-American
republics.
     Her father was Henry B. Blackwell; her mother
was Lucy Stone. Is it any wonder, then, that the name
of Alice Stone Blackwell is to be heard wherever the 
cause of freedom sounds its call?
     That name should be better known. It is not a 
name that you will find blazoned forth on the pages of 
the popular women's magazines, although it belongs there
by right of the services that Miss Blackwell's parents,
and Miss Blackwell herself, have rendered to womankind.
It belongs, indeed, wherever the cause of woman -- or of
man -- has been fought and won. It belongs with the best
causes that one day, because of such spirits as she, will
emerge victorious. Her allegiance is determined, not by 
the numbers of armies, but by the justice of causes.-3-
I have sometimes thought what a relief it would
be to discover, on some miraculous month, the picture of
such a woman on the front cover of a woman's journal, instead
of the pretty, pretty things that too often adorn
that cover. I am not insensitive to womanly beauty, nor
am I ungrateful, let us say, to the Hollywood lasses who
populate the movies. But we see so much of them -- too 
much of them -- in the movies, Why do they have to smirk
at us from every magazine cover? Why can't they make
room, once in a while for a face that contains character,
and that suggests an inner beauty?
For that matter, a book could be written on the
significance of magazine covers. They could easily be
made into the basis of a monograph on human psychology in
general, and on the American mind in particular.
Miss Blackwell has been an editor, and an editor
of women's magazines. They weren't the kind that carry
sleek females on shining covers, however. Miss Blackwell
began her literary and sociological career as assistant to
her parents, who published the "Woman's Journal" in Boston.
After they died, she took over their duties and remained
editor-in-chief until 1917 -- a period of more than twenty
years. It is characteristic of her that, with complete
blindness threatening her, she smiles and says that she
can enjoy herself from the eyes up, if need be. The lady
has brains.


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I recall a visit to her when she lived in Roxbury.
She is now spending the evening of her years in
Cambridge. Her desk was littered with documents; it
looked for all the world like what it really was -- the
heaped-up table of a city editor. She had her intellectual
tentacles stretched out in every direction, all over the
world. She still has. That little room, on the upper
floor of a modest apartment house, was an eyrie that
looked out upon the universe. It was like the beacon of
a lighthouse shining out into the emotional and intellectual
darkness of benighted humanity.
I am very much younger than Miss Blackwell; but
on that afternoon she made me feel so old. Her concentrated
spiritual energy was a tonic -- and a silent reproach.
The world is full of bored women who need to
know sisters like Alice Stone Blackwell; I am only sorry
that as I write these lines it may be too late for them
to make profitably the acquaintance of this receding
figure.
There is one excellent way of honoring her for
her unselfish services, and that is to emulate her example.
I am happy to say that there are a number of Jewish women
who possess the depth and feeling and the width of interests
that have distinguished this American. As there should be
more American women like her, so there should be more Jewish
women like them.-5-
Surely there never was a time in the history of
the world that called more loudly for women of courage
and vision. Alice Stone Blackwell possesses both these
qualities in abundance. To honor her is to proclaim adherence
to the aims and achievements that have lifted
man from barbarism to civilization, and that keep him
from slipping back into the primal slime.
By Isaac Goldberg
(In Jewish Advocate. June 24, 1938,
Panorama: A Weekly Survey of
People and Ideas)


Tuesday, April 4, 1950
CLA '81 Grad
Wills Colleges
Suffrage Books
The two last wishes expressed
shortly before her death by Alice
Stone Blackwell, CLA '81 are in
the process of fulfillment.
The daughter of Lucy Stone, a
pioneer worker for women's rights,
Alice Blackwell expresses the hope
that the biography of her mother
would someday appear on the shelves
of every women's college in the nation,
and also that the private papers
of her parents be indexed and made
available for future generations and
historians. These papers contain invaluable
records of the anti-slavery
and women's movements in the United 
States.
Set up to raise the $5,000 needed
to place 2,500 volumes in the colleges,
the Alice Stone Blackwell
Fund Committee urges that memorial
contributions be sent to Blackwell
Fund, 21 Ashmont Street, Melrose
76, Mass.
The University, one of the nation's
pioneer schools in admitting women
to study on an academic level with
men students, honored Alice Blackwell
in 1945, five years before her death,
bestowing on her a Doctor of Humanities
degree with the citation by Pres.
Daniel L. Marsh:
"Alice Stone Blackwell, beloved
graduate of Boston University,
writer and humanitarian whose
name is synonymous with pioneering
for woman's rights and the
fight for woman's suffrage, and
with the defense of the underprivileged
and the oppressed the world
round, I confer upon you Boston
University's honorary Degree of
Doctor of Humanities.""A Great Woman"
To the Editor--The League of
Women Voters of Massachusetts
wishes to pay its respects publicly
to the memory of a great woman,
Alice Stone Blackwell, who died
the other day at the age of 92.
She was honorary president of the
League of Women Voters of Massachusetts
since its founding in
1920.
We ask the women of Massachusetts
to pause briefly to honor her
memory and too reflect that we owe 
our very status as fully responsible
citizens of this Commonwealth,
of this country, to Miss
Blackwell, her family, and the
courageous few like her.
The successful functioning of
democracy requires the participation
and understanding of all of
our citizens, men and women both.
The opportunity of the women of
today to serve was achieved
through the efforts and convictions
of Alice Stone Blackwell
and the women of her generation.
MRS. ALAN R. MORSE,
Boston.


Alice Stone Blackwell
To the Editor--Thank you for
your fine editorial honoring Alice
Stone Blackwell. Here was a woman
who with pride carried the
banner for women's rights. In a
letter to me several years ago,
she stated that she "was brought
up to respect Abigail Adams." It
was her desire that the birthplace
of that great woman patriot be
restored and become a shrine.
Those who appreciate the fine
character, the brilliant mind and
the conscientious endeavors of
Alice Stone Blackwell might well
express their admiration by supporting
the work of the Abigail
Adams Historical Society, whose
hope it is to raise sufficient funds
to complete the restoration of her
birthplace which began three
years ago.
Those of us who were fortunate
enough to receive Christmas and
Easter greeting cards from Alice
Stone Blackwell with miss her inspiring
messages. Such a one was
last year's:
However long the Winter,
However deep the snows,
Spring comes at last to melt them
And bid the flowers unclose
And in the great uprising
When Winter's chill departs.
Not earth alone is blossoming,
But also human hearts.
The lilies' silver trumpets say
"Be brave! Be brave! On Easter Day
Weymouth
AMY HILL DUNCAN.


The Nation
America's Leading Liberal Weekly Since 1865
Volume 170     New York - Saturday - March 25, 1950    Number 12
The Shape of Things
THE FINAL EFFECT OF MR. ACHESON'S TWO
California speeches cannot yet be estimated. Carefully
thought out and designed for a purpose, they may make
or help to break the Administration's foreign policy-
and possibly Mr. Acheson himself. For they were aimed
at America more than at Russia, and their double objective
was to deflect the attacks of the Republicans, who
have been trying by means both fair and very foul to
undermine the Secretary of State and his Department,
and to convince friendly critics like Senator McMahon
that in the present state of things overtures to the Russians
would be positively harmful. Moscow may have
helped Mr. Acheson's case by its hostile reaction to his
seven-point address in Berkeley. But if the speech persuaded 
some doubters that talk is useless, it must have
made other Americans question whether the Secretary
really meant business when he set down his conditions
or peaceful coexistence or was merely itemizing his reactions
for disliking and distrusting Moscow methods. The
seven points not only call for something like a counter-revolution
in Russia; they also ignore many complicating
factors, outside of Soviet wrong-headedness, that stand
[?] the way of a settlement. Even on the basic issue of 
[?] peace treaties, serious obstacles exist in Washington
[as well?] as in Moscow. What Mr. Acheson is plainly trying
to do is to defend his total-diplomacy position and 
[?] rage current peace efforts. We do not believe he
[?] ceed with the sort of speeches he made on the 
[?] is enemies on the right will not be appeased,
[?] supporters of new efforts toward an agreement
[?] ly to accept the seven points as a conclusive
[?]erms.
 [?]  GIUM'S SOCIALISTS HAVE PROVIDED
proof that there remains in European socialism enough
fighting spirit to spike the theory that outside the Communist
movement all is resignation and inaction. By
announcing their decision to call a general strike, if
necessary, to prevent King Leopold's return to the 
throne, they have put all the bourgeois parties in a very 
difficult position. This move strengthened the determination
of the Liberal Party not to enter any Cabinet combination
as long as the royal question remains unsettled,
leaving exclusively to the Catholic Social Christian party
the responsibility for plunging the country into one

of the most bitter internal struggles of the last fifty
years. There remains the possibility that a few dissenting
Liberals may join with the Catholics to form a
pro-Leopold cabinet, but in the event severe civil
disturbances are assured. Among the Catholic party's 
leaders, even former Premier Gaston Eyskens was originally
against a Catholic minority government, whose
first task would be to shoot down the workers for the 
benefit of a man regarded as a deserter by almost half
the population. It was Albert de Vleeschauer, the violently
reactionary Minister of the Interior, apparently 
ready to go to any lengths to restore his idol to the 
throne, who finally forced the issue. While the Prime
Minister was counseling moderation, De Vleeschauer
was reliably reported to have been in contact with the
King from Brussels, urging him not to yield to the 
advice of the Premier. Suggestions that the King merely
wants to save his face and is prepared, once he is installed, 
to renounce the throne in favor of his son,
Prince Baudouin, were received skeptically by so
cautious a politician as Paul-Henri Spaak. Under the 
pressure of the Socialist rank and file, M. Spaak has
reverted to his Jacobin origins and firmly opposes
the King's return. In every respect, the Belgian crisis is
a fascinating incident and a healthy sign of democratic 
revival.
*
UNWITTINGLY, SENATOR McCARTHY MAY BE
doing the country a real service after all. So flimsy have
his charges turned out to be and so shabby his conduct
that he has happily injured the political usefulness of 
the smear technique. It is even possible that he has
brought about a popular revulsion against the privilege
whereby members of Congress may advance their political
fortunes by ruining the lives and reputations of
citizens without let or hindrance from the law. To sustain
his grotesque charge that the State Department has
fifty-seven card-holding Communists in its employ, the
Wisconsin Senator has been trickling names before a
Senate subcommittee. But, faced with a demand for
evidence, he no longer even pretends that his victims
answer the advance description. It is enough that at
one time or another they addressed groups that were 
subsequently labeled subversive or that their names appeared
on letterheads along with others thought to be
Communists. Judge Dorothy Kenyon, the first person
who has had an opportunity to answer McCarthy under
oath, made such mincemeat of his charges that Republican262
IN THIS ISSUE
EDITORIALS
The Shape of Things                                                                          261
Rape of the Constitution                                                                   263
ARTICLES              
Cold Civil War by our Paris Correspondent                                    264
Abd-el-Krim Rides Again by Del Vayo                                              266
The Attack on the Intellect
by Edward U. Condon                                                                         267
Segregation and the Law
by Thomas J. Emerson                                                                         269
The Politics of Cotton by Carey McWilliams                                    271
Looking Backward                                                                               272
Old vs. New at Taos by R. L. Chambers                                            273
Austria-International Chessboard
by Alexander Werth                                                                              274
The Nerve War              
Cartoon by David Low                                                                           275
Everybody's Business: Spain´s Warped
Economy by Keith Hutchison                                                               277
BOOKS AND THE ARTS
The Spirit of Berlioz´ Music
by Jacques Barzun                                                                                278
Portrait of a Critic by B. H. Haggin                                                     280
Making of the Orchestra by Charles N. Farrell                                   283
Two Poles of Modern Musical Thought
by Harold Brown                                                                                     284
Chopin Centennial by Robert E. Garis                                                 285
Books in Brief                                                                                          287
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS                                                                   287
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by Frank W. Lewis                                                                                    288
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Republican Senator Hickenlooper, a member of the subcommittee,
was left without "the least belief" that she had
been "in any way subversive or disloyal." To accomplish
the same purpose, John Stewart Service, an American
diplomat now en route to India with his family and
belongings, will have to return immediately upon landing.
Service has satisfied a grand jury ad the FBI of his 
innocence, but now he must disrupt his mission to answer
once more what Under Secretary of State Peurifoy
calls "dead, discredited, and disproven charges." The
immunity of legislators from prosecution for slander
and libel is of basic importance in our system of government,
but Congress itself must be made to see that
the time is long past due for steps to prevent the wanton
abuse of this privilege by unscrupulous politicians.
What is happening to the Historic
tradition that the United States Senate if the most exclusive
gentleman's club in the world? The elaborate politeness
of the members, for generations the fixed rule of
behavior, is giving way to personal abuse that would
once have shocked the country Rule Nineteen of the
Senate provides that "No Senator in debate shall...
impute to another Senator...any conduct or motive
unworthy or unbecoming a Senator. But recently we
have heard Senator Eastland flatly accuse Senator
Lehmen of "very unethical conduct." We have heard
him conclude a tirade on the Displaced Persons bill
with the words: "I say again that the statements made
by the Senator from New York are a tissue of falsehoods.
...deliberately made." Senator McCarthy branded a
committee of his colleagues "a tool of the State Department,"
leaving Senator McMahon "profoundly
shocked." And Senator Jenner warmly supported [the?]
clerk of a subcommittee when that hired official [?]
the effrontery to make dark innuendoes about mem[?]
who had signed the subcommittee's minority re[?]
When Senator Kilgore demanded to know w[?]
Jenner meant that "any money had changed [?]
the Indiana Republican banged the desk and sho[?]
a "$1,000,000 lobby" was operating to liber[?]
D. P. bill. The old tradition of gentility pro[?]
lubricant in the transaction of legislative busine[?]
veteran Senators are said to be worried about the [?]
teriorating standards of behavior. In France and Italy [?]
is the Communists who make a brawling shambles of
parliamentary government.  In this sense, at any rate,
the Eastlands, McCarthys, and Jenners promise to be
the Communists of the United States Senate.
Fourteen Miles from Phoenix, in the
heart of the rich Salt River Valley, juvenile court
authorities recently found 150 destitute families
stranded in a labor camp. In the camp, once operated

March 25, 1950
by the federal government but now controlled by the
Arizona Farm Bureau, there were over one hundred
children from seventeen months to eleven years of
age, some of whom had gone without nourishment for
ten days or more. One father had walked sixteen
miles to Buckeye, Arizona, stopping at farms along the
way in a vain search for employment; another had been
selling his blood to buy food for his children. The government
reports that no funds are available to meet
Arizona's request for $100,000 for the relief of these
families nd that although surplus foods are available,
they cannot be transported to Arizona because
no funds were appropriated to pay distribution
costs. Most of these D.P.'s are stranded cotton pickers;
it would be interesting to learn what Arizona cotton
growers received from the government in subsidies last
year and by how much this sum exceeded $100,000.
*
A Month Ago we reported in these
columns that the navy was attempting to make informers
of students applying for its Reserve Officer
Training Corps. Applicants were asked to give the names
of any persons they might know of who had been associated
with supposedly subversive organizations. Objections
were made by a number of reserve officers, and
Americans for Democratic Action lodged a sharp protest
with Louis Johnson Secretary of Defense. It is refreshing
to learn that the obnoxious clause is being eliminated
from the application forms and that an American boy
may again aspire to become a naval officer without first
having to qualify as a stool pigeon.
*
Alice Stone Blackwell was certainly
a woman of her time. First and last a fighter for women's
rights, her immense energy and interest carried her into
a dozen fields of work and kept her in touch with contemporary
affairs almost to the end of her long life.
Yet she served as a link with another age as well as a
vital participant in this one. Child of the famous suffragists
and abolitionists Lucy Stone and Henry B.
Blackwell, Alice Blackwell symbolized for all who
knew her the great age of reform and emancipation
that flourished in New England in the last half of the
nineteenth century and the beginning of this one.
Among the advanced group to which she belonged, the
freedom of women was tied firmly to that of Negroes,
and both were intimately bound up with the emerging
concept of workers' rights and general social welfare. AS
journalist and lecturer, Alice Blackwell labored for all
those causes and to them she added a passionate interest
in the oppressed people of other countries, particularly
the Armenians, Jews, and Russians. Somehow she
found the time and energy to master the languages of

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these three peoples and translated their poetry for publication
in America. Her death had ended an amazing
career; it also marks the end of an amazing generation.
The Four Young Idaho Indians
sentenced to eleven years each in prison for stealing
one sheep (The Nation, December 17, 1949) are to
have an appeal heard on their case. The Association
on American Indian Affairs, filing a brief amicus curiae,
asserts that the youths were denied due process of law
in the lower court, citing their lack of counsel and
the conduct of the prosecutor. J. Morey O'Donnell,
prosecutor of Latah County, has now admitted "surprise
and shock" at the severe punishment meted out
by seventy-five-year-old Judge Albert L. Morgan. Indignation
among both Indians and whites is high, and
O'Donnell's new attitude may be influenced by the
fact that this is an election year Judge Morgan insists
that under Idaho's indeterminate-sentence law he was
compelled to give the Indians the maximum penalty;
the statute is just as specific in granting judges the
power to parole offenders and suspend sentence. Historians
of the future will no doubt be puzzled by the
fact that these found Indians received the identical penalty
for stealing a $12 sheep ;that Klaus Fuchs got in a
British court for betraying atomic secrets.
*
The First Appearance of the New Column
Dangerous Thoughts, scheduled for this issue has been
postponed for one week because of the illness of the
contributor whose article was to start the series.

Rape of the Constitution
Senator Mundt is with us again. the man who
two years ago tried to commit the most sweeping
legislative assault on the Constitution since the Alien
and Sedition laws is back for another try. The House,
in a burst of pre-election demagogy, passed the Mundt-Nixon
bill in 1948, but it was too raw for the Senate
to swallow, even in the Eightieth Congress. Last week,
however, it was the Senate Judiciary Committee that
gave its blessing to substantially the same bill, with
Langer of North Dakota the lone dissenter. Subsequently,
we are relieved to learn, Senators Kefauver,
Kilgore, and Magnuson decided they had made a mistake
and indicated their opposition to the measure.
How these three, good liberals all, could ever have
been in the slightest doubt about the Mundt bill is beyond
your understanding assuming they gave it their 
serious attention.  Mundt insists that it "does not outlawTHE NATION
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the Communist Party" but merely compels it "to come
out of the slimy darkness of its underground cells and
either dissolve its conspiracy, operate in the open, or
run into conflict with the law." With the general objective
of eliminating conspiracy, we are, needless to say,
in sympathy. But the methods provided by Senator
Mundt are nothing less than a rape of Anglo-Saxon law.
In its preamble the measure makes what amounts to a
legislative finding that the Communist Party is an agent
of a foreign power and that it seeks conspiratorially to
overthrow the American government. The finding may
well be correct but, as Langer pointed out, guilt by
legislative fiat is abhorrent to American law and a flat
violation of the constitutional requirement of due 
process.
   A subversive-activities control board, consisting of
three members appointed by the President, would have
the right under the proposed law to order the listing of
any organization as a Communist political association or
as a Communist front, whereupon all members of the
former and all officers of the latter would be obligated
to register with the Attorney General. Members of organizations
refusing to register would be subject to
prosecution. Listed organizations would have to label
their mail and radio broadcasts as Communist in origin.
Legal review would be provided only in the Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia, which would be
a problem, to say the least, for a wronged individual
who happened to live in Seattle or Honolulu. Passports
and appointive federal jobs would be denied to all
Communists, and no member of a listed organization
would even be allowed to run for elective office if he
had concealed his membership.
   Whatever the Senator may say, the enactment of his
bill would in effect outlaw the Communist Party, and
anyone who thinks that this would be an undiluted
blessing knows nothing whatever of the dangerous techniques
open to an underground movement. As fast as 
an organization is listed by the Attorney General, moreover,
it could bob up with another name and a set of
by-laws decked out in more sweet-sounding rhetoric than
the Soviet constitution itself.
   Far more important than this question of the legislation's
effectiveness is the price we would pay for its
dubious achievements. If the Mundt bill becomes law,
we will have substituted a Congressional bill of attainder
for trial by law. We will have exposed ourselves to
prosecution and harassment solely on the basis of what
a government board may decide is subversive. We will
have abandoned completely the doctrine that guilt is
personal and not the result of association. And we will
have invited a future Administration to outlaw, by the 
same device, whatever party or group it may find inconvenient
to its purposes.
   Neither the present Supreme Court nor any in our
history, we believe, would for a moment sustain this
legislative monstrosity. The shock is that any Senator
should attempt such violence to the Constitution he is
sworn to uphold.

Cold Civil War
Paris, March 12

Our correspondent writes: Four ushers of the National
Assembly had to be treated at the infirmary
for "severe injuries," M. de Menthon, parliamentary
leader of the M. R. P., had to take to bed "with internal
injuries," and M. Arthaud, a Communist, was knocked 
out. The debate on M. Bidault's bill against sabotage
and "demoralization of the army" went on almost without
a break for nearly three solid days and nights, and
some ten hours out of the sixty were taken up with what
the Journal Official calls "tumulte," that is, fist fights,
complete with the invasion of the Assembly by 200
Republican Guards, the "occupation" of the tribune-
despite protests from Edouard Herriot, President of
the Assembly - by a number of Communist deputies,
and the forcible expulsion of two of them for twenty
days, Figaro argued editorially that these "disgraceful
scenes" should finally convince the last supporters of 
proportional representation - notably the M. R. P. - 
that a new election law must be agreed upon which
would all but eliminate Communists in the next Parliament.
   Despite the comic treatment given these energetic
proceedings in some foreign papers, the debate was, in
reality, one of the most important ever to have taken
place in the National Assembly - and the fact that voyou,
crétin, dégénéré, and similar epithets were freely exchanged
was only a by-product of the discussion itself.
This dealt with many fundamentals: the attitude of the
French people toward the Atlantic Pact and the war in
Viet Nam, the burning question of strikes and wages,
the government's right to withhold information for
"reasons of State"- this apropos the Affaire Revers.
There had, clearly, been an attempt on the part of M.
Ramadier, then Minister of War, to hush up the scandal
which would compromise "certain high officers of the
French army," not only in the eyes of the French public,
but, above all, in the eyes of France's allies.
   There is no doubt that the Communists represent the
interests of Moscow, and one of the important features
of the debate was the fact that they made no secret of it.
As one of them said: "In the past, progressive men used 
to say: "J'ai deux patries, le mien et puis la France'; so
today every progressive man, with the interests of his 
own country at heart, has two countries, his own and
the Soviet Union." And yet, while playing Moscow's
game, the Communists brought out argument after 

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A Heroine of Her Sex
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell
Another angel has left us again
Leaving the hearts in sorrow and pain,
Giving us warning that the world is vain,
Only the kind deeds really do remain.
She is gone to join the parade in paradise,
Only God loving people can have the prize.
May God comfort her friends dear,
Also the bleeding hearts for her too near.
Yes, we have lost, the sweet heart of all,
For her heart was too big, for one man control.
So she gave it not only to the women of her oavy nation
And filled them with love and admiration,
But the hearts of different races,
She has won with her kindly graces.
Their inner soul she could understand,
Though she was far away from their land.
To the fallen, helpless in need,
She was a good Samaritan indeed.
For the defenseless, with no chance,
She came forward, with a courage in defense.2
The right of her sex she upheld
gave them a better place in her land,
The echo of which soon sounded,
where ever better judgement is founded.

As a brave lady she did live
In God's commandments did behave,
From all sides she did hear,
To tell the Truth, she had no fear.

Though the world is dark and full of tears,
With misunderstanding, and left over ruins,
As a shining star she has done her share,
With a fruitful life, and thoughts free and fair.

Her memory for ever will shine,
In every corner and reaching line
Also among Armenian race,
Where she has left her beaming rays.

A heroine of her sex can not fade away,
Like the fallen leaves and drying hay.
The fruit of her life is here to stay
To pave the bewildering after comer's way.

by Queenie (Takouhi) Ishkanian[*21 Ashmont St., Melrose, March 25th*]

Dear Mel:
Dr. Sam sent me back his edited copy with this memo:
"The Christian Register out to be supplied with an obituary, but
not my address. That was a characterization of Miss Alice but had
not a word about the facts of her wonderful career. An obituary
should tell something about her inheritances and about the causes
and institutions she served and the honors that came to her. In the
memorial address I took it for granted that the people who were
present knew all about such things. Your own summary of Miss Alice's
activities and achievements would be all right and if you want to add
a few sentences from my address, select whatever you like."

Of course I wouldn't think of using my own material. I am
sure the readers of the Register know about Miss Blackwell and would
choose Dr. Sam's address.

But I am enclosing the summary by Mrs. Park which I sent him
when he was preparing his tribute. Mrs. Park worked with Miss
[xxx] Blackwell from the time she first heard her speak at a suffrage
meeting at Radcliffe in 1898. As a result of that speech Mrs. Park
later organized the College Equal Suffrage League, and when the
Amendment passed the Congress, was Chairman of the Congressional
Committee, and the strategist who got the necessary votes. After
ratification Mrs. Park was elected the first president of the League
of Women Voters of the United States. I think her name would be
a creditable addition to the list of Register authors.
Best to you all. Some day I'll surprise you
and peek in at you.


[*ALICE STONE BLACKWELL*]

Memorial [w]ervices were held on Saturday, March 18th at Arlington
Street Church, Boston, for Alice Stone Blackwell, noted suffragist
and humanitarian. Rev. Dana McLean Greely, minister of the
church assisted,Dr. Samuel A. Eliot, who delivered the eulogy.
Ushers for the service included three cousins of Miss-Blackwell -
Mrs. John Blackwell and Mr. Lawrence P. Belden of Cambridge, and Mr.
Samuel Whidden of Bangor, Maine. Mr. Shahan Natalie represented
the Armenian General Benevolent Union, and Dr. Morris Cohen, the Boston
Evening Clinic. Miss Blackwell was actively interested in plans for
the forthcoming campaign now under way in behalf of the Clinic.

Sonnet written by William Lloyd Garrison, Jr.
read by Dr. Eliot at the service.

To Alice Stone Blackwell

She sweeps the wide horizon with her glass
Watching the human drama there unroll
And, tracing the events upon her scroll,
Divines the meaning of what comes to pass.
Across the years her clear coherent speech
Has flashed like sunlight throughout a rifted cloud
To lend illumination when the crowd
With cruel hands the weak has sought to reach.

The Psalmists' days have passed her with a smile,
Her heresies enjoy the guise of law,
And now, with Delphic word at her command,
Beside her tripod at the cavern's maw,
With flame-tipped thoughts does she the world beguile
And, as of old, drive darkness from the land.
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL
A Tribute

Alice Stone Blackwell, more than any other person, symbolized 
the whole range of the struggle of women through two generations to 
win untrammeled human status. One of her aunts was the first to be 
ordained a minister; another was the first woman doctor. Her mother, Lucy Stone, was the first Massachusetts woman to go to college; became a lecturer against Negro
slavery and for woman's rights when mere public speaking by women
was considered an indecency; and throughout her life was one of the 
half-dozen great national figures in the woman's movement. Her father,
Henry B. Blackwell, gave a lifetime of service to the woman's cause.

The life of the daughter was inextricably interwoven from
babyhood in the widely varied activities of her parents, which Miss
Blackwell recorded in her book, "Lucy Stone, Pioneer of Woman's Rights".
Miss Blackwell was assistant or editor-in-chief of the Woman's Journal
for thirty-four years; Secretary of the National American Woman 
Suffrage Association for about twenty years, and President of the New 
England and the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Associations. As Miss
Blackwell's chief weapon was the pen, often anonymous, she was not
personally in the public eye as much as the platform campaigners. But
her work of editing the Woman's Journal and writing for that paper,
as well as innumerable leaflets, articles, newspaper letters, and
campaign pamphlets supplied the movement. Among Journalists she was 
regarded as an editor of outstanding ability. In the council chamber
she applied her rich wisdom, vast information, fertile mind and
dauntless spirit to mapping out the strategy which through the years
carried the suffrage cause step by step to final victory.

The instant the ballot was won she took up the task of educating
and organizing the new voters for public-spirited citizenship. She
became Honorary Chairman and an active member of the Massachusetts
League of Women Voters. 


[*A.S.B. - 2*]

In line with her family's pioneering interest in the field of women's
education, she served Boston University, her alma mater, as trustee
since 1908. In 1945 the degree of Doctor of Humanities
was conferred upon her.

Throughout these long years her sensitive humanity has made her
responsive to countless other struggles against oppression. Roused
by the Armenian massacres of the '90's, she became a life-long
champion of that people. Among her tireless and varied efforts to win
them public understanding and support she rendered into English verse
"Armenian Poems". Her devotion to Armenia was recognized by the bestowal
of the Order of Melusine. 

The atrocious oppressions of the Czar's Government led her to active
work with the American Friends of Russian Freedom. Her warm cooperation
and friendship with Madam Breshkovsky extended over many years and
included the editing of her autobiography and letters.

The struggles of labor equally enlisted her quick sympathies
on countless occasions. Repeatedly she raised her voice against
exploitation and the suppression of free speech, of the right to
organize and of other civil liberties. 

Devoted to world peace, she sought during many years to turn her
talents to its service by promoting cultural appreciation. She rendered
into English verse "Songs of Grief and Gladness" (from the Yiddish),
"Songs of Russia", the Hungarian poems of Petofi; and "Some Spanish
American Poets" - the latter a monumental volume of over two hundred
poems, opening to North Americans a new continent of literature.

A noteworthy tribute to the importance of the Woman's Journal
was made by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, whose wise leadership brought about 
the adoption of the Woman Suffrage Amendment. She said, "No words can
express the gratitude I feel for the service Miss Blackwell and her dear 
father and mother gave to the Woman Suffrage Movement through the 
Woman's Journal. Without it we would still be unenfranchised."[*A.S.B. - 3*]

Miss Blackwell was the speaker who had the responsibility of
replying to the arguments of the anti-suffragists at the annual woman
suffrage hearings before the Judiciary Committee of the Massachusetts
Legislature. What she could do in the twenty minutes allotted to 
her for rebuttal was almost miraculous. Her knowledge of facts and 
her ability to state them briefly and clearly, her logic, her vast
common sense and her unfailing good humor made of each terse sentence
a lighting flash to illumine the black and misleading depths of 
anti-eloquence. A distinguished lawyer once said that he attended the
Massachusetts woman suffrage hearings whenever he could because he
considered Miss Blackwell's rebuttal speeches the ablest presentation
of controversial matter he had ever heard. In spite of
the ignominious defeats that she had to face or many years, she went
on, tireless in spite of frail health, undaunted, always cheerful. 
Once when I told her she was the most heroic person I had ever
known, she laughed and replied "But I never did anything except what
was in the day's work". That characterstic remark indicates the way 
she has always taken herself. If the cause had required that she should be'
shot at sunrise she would have gone out into the cold gray dawn as 
simply and naturally as she would had done everything else. Death, too,
would have been the day's work. 

Her courage was not the mere buoyancy of the physically strong to
whom nerves are unknown, but the reasoned, sustained courage of a person
forcing herself to be brave because bravery was needed to accomplish 
the work in hand.

Beneath her gifts as a writer and speaker lay rare devotion, not only
to the woman movement, but to all causes that strive for justice for
human beings of every race, color and creed. Indeed her sympathy for
the suffering was so keen that it led her to give much time and effort
to the prevention of cruelty to animals. In the death of Alice Stone
Blackwell the world has lost a distinguished citizen. Maud Wood Park
ASB death

NEWS ABOUT BOSTON UNIVERSITY

FROM THE UNIVERSITY 
BUREAU OF PUBLICITY 
308 Bay State Road
Boston 15, Massachusetts

KEnmore 6-8138
ELEANOR R. COLLIER, Director
(Mrs. Edward R.) 

Press Bulletin No. 
49-140

FOR RELEASE FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 31 

ALICE STONE BLACKWELL
MEMORIAL FUND BEING
RAISED

TWO LAST WISHES EXPRESSED A FORTNIGHT BEFORE HER RECENT DEATH BY THE LATE ALICE
STONE BLACKWELL, BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS GRADUATE IN THE CLASS OF
1881, WILL BE FULFILLED IF THREE CLOSE FRIENDS HAVE THEIR WAY. THE ALICE STONE BLACKWELL 
FUND COMMITTEE, COMPOSED OF MRS. ADA COMSTOCK NOTESTEIN OF NEW HAVEN, CONN., FORMER 
RADCLIFFE COLLEGE PRESIDENT, AND TWO MELROSE RESIDENTS, MRS. MAUD WOOD PARKS AND 
MRS. EDNA LAMPEY STANTIAL OF 21 ASHMONT STREET, IS DEDICATED TO THE FULFILLMENT.

THIS MEANS THAT THE BIOGRAPHY OF LUCY STONE, MISS BLACKWELL'S MOTHER AND A PIONEER 
WORKER FOR RIGHTS FOR WOMEN, WILL BE PUT ON THE SHELF OF EVERY WOMAN'S COLLEGE IN THE 
NATION. THIS IS ONE OF THE TWO EXPRESSED WISHES. IT MEANS ALSO THAT THE PRIVATE PAPERS
OF LUCY STONE AND HER HUSBAND, HENRY B. BLACKWELL, PARENTS OF THE LATE ALICE STONE 
BLACKWELL, WILL BE PUT IN ORDER AND INDEXED WITH UTMOST CARE, THUS MAKING THEM AVAILABLE
TO FUTURE GENERATIONS AND HISTORIANS. MRS. STANTIAL REVEALED LAST NIGHT THAT A 
SUM OF $5000.00 IS NEEDED TO PLACE 2500 VOLUMES IN THE COLLEGES, AND THAT ALTHOUGH A 
MODEST START HAS BEEN MADE, CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE NEEDED TO REALIZE THIS AMOUNT. ACCORDINGLY, 
THE COMMITTEE HAS ISSUED THE FOLLOWING LETTER, AND WILL WELCOME ALL GIFTS

BOSTON UNIVERSITY, ONE OF THE NATION'S PIONEER UNIVERSITIES  TO ADMIT WOMEN TO 
STUDIES ON AN ACADEMIC LEVEL WITH MEN STUDENTS, HONORED MISS BLACKWELL WITH ELECTION 
TO ITS BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AND FIVE YEARS BEFORE HER DEATH, IN MAY 1945, HER ALMA MATER 
BESTOWED ON HER ITS ACADEMIC HONORS, A DOCTOR OF HUMANITIES DEGREE WITH THE CITATION 
BY PRESIDENT DANIEL L. MARSH: "ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, BELOVED GRADUATE OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 
WRITER AND HUMANITARIAN WHOSE NAME IS SYNONYMOUS WITH PIONEERING FOR WOMAN'S 
RIGHTS AND THE FIGHT FOR WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE, AND WITH THE DEFENSE OF THE UNDERPRIVILEGED 
AND THE OPPRESSED THE WHOLE WORLD ROUND, I CONFER UPON YOU BOSTON UNIVERSITY'S HONORARY 
DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF HUMANITIES."

A GIFT MADE LAST SUMMER TO HER ALMA MATER BY MISS BLACKWELL OF SPANISH AMERICAN 
BOOKS WHICH SHE HAD USED IN HER TRANSLATIONS, IS TREASURED BY THE UNIVERSITY. OTHER 
PAPERS WERE MADE IN THE PAST AS A GIFT TO RADCLIFFE COLLEGE FOR ITS WOMEN'S RIGHTS COLLECTION. 
THE LETTER FROM THE ALICE STONE BLACKWELL FUND COMMITTEE FOLLOWS: 

"THE FRIEND  WHO WROTE THIS GREETING FOR YOUR JOY AT EASTERTIME (ED.NOTE: ONE OF 
MISS BLACKWELL'S TRADITIONAL POETIC GREETINGS) PASSED AWAY ON MARCH 15TH, BUT EVERY 
SEASON, YEAR IN, YEAR OUT, LIFE HOLDS MORE OF JOY AND OPPORTUNITY FOR EACH ONE OF US 
BECAUSE OF ALICE STONE BLACKWELL'S BEAUTIFUL LIFE OF SERVICE TO HUMANITY. 

"A FORTNIGHT BEFORE HER DEATH, MISS BLACKWELL EXPRESSED TWO LONGINGS --CHARACTERISTICALLY 
NOT FOR HERSELF, BUT TO KEEP THE CAUSE OF WOMAN'S  FREEDOM ALIVE IN THE MINDS 
AND HEARTS OF COMING GENERATIONS. SHE WANTED THE BIOGRAPHY OF LUCY STONE PUT INTO THE 
LIBRARIES OF ALL THE WOMEN'S COLLEGES OF THE NATION; SHE WANTED THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF 
LUCY STONE AND HENRY B. BLACKWELL PUT IN ORDER AND INDEXED SO THAT THESE PRICELESS RECORDS 
OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY AND WOMAN'S MOVEMENT MIGHT BE AVAILABLE FOR THE FUTURE. 
"SOME OF US FEEL IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO HELP THE LAST WISHES OF ALICE STONE BLACKWELL 
COME TRUE.
"MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS MAY BE SENT TO THE ALICE STONE BLACKWELL FUND, 21 ASHMONT 
STREET, MELROSE 76.
(SIGNED) MAUD WOOD PARKS
TRUSTEES: MRS. ADA COMSTOCK NOTESTEIN
MRS MAUD WOOD PARKS
MRS. EDNA LAMPEY STANTIAL"
MEMBER AMERICAN COLLEGE PUBLIC RELATIONS ASSOCIATION


March 15, 1950 - 9 P.M.

To the City Editor: 
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, noted suffragist and 
humanitarian, passed away at her home, 1010 Massachusetts
Ave., Cambridge, early this evening, (Mar. 15th). Miss
Blackwell had celebrated her 92nd birthday on September 14th. 
Notice of service will be published later. 
Surviving Miss Blackwell are two cousins, Howard L. 
Blackwell and Mrs. Anna Blackwell Belden, both of Cambridge. 
Miss Blackwell had been illfor only a week.

The telephone at her apartment has been shut off
temporarily, and any further information about memorial 
services will come from her cousin, Howard L. Blackwell, 
4 Riedesel Avenue, Cambridge. 

For the family,

Mrs. Guy W. Stantial
21 Ashmont St. Melrose, Mass.
Tel. Melrose 4 - 2996Ben Lrdi
2 2/4/20 Strour
Argyll, Scotland
Dear Mrs Maud, hood Park. 
Thank you for the letter For
miss Alice Stone Blackwell's pappy
is my friend who reads my
letters for me, brought a short-time
a titillating telling of the death & I so much
wanted to know who I could write 
to send my splendid sympathy in their
loss she has had a wonderful life & now
her work is & those left benefit by her 
life of usefulness, ab Easter Island to my
young friend so Easter card by Christmas& for the last time one has come
she has been so very kind on Sunday
C. A. R. E. boxes I never felt I could 
thank her as I wanted to do. We
never met which made it - all the more
wonderful D Blackwell & Miss Berry
I knew from their first visit to 
[?] & then Miss, K Berry
Blackwell came to stay when I saw
more of her, then she left us but
but was always in touch up to
the last & so very kind always 
one doesn't come across many
such very good friends: as they 
have proved I am writing this

letter very far from what 
I'd like it to be. So I hope I 
may be pardoned my sight is 
so bad & getting worse. I cannot
read & do not see more than
to keep in line. I am 85 1/2 & alone
to manage, I should have done
this sooner but have been not
very well for a week but still
am thankful to mange for my
self. Now to the Fund I am 
hoping to see how the business is
done & send a donation if it
were here it would be easy to dobut U.S.A. is new to me 
& business on others are not in 
my line & never have been 
I am sending this book to delay 
longer than I've had to do. 
I do hope you can read my 
writing, it was once my 
easiest work & now is a 
thought to attempt it. Please 
overlook all mistakes
Thanking you again
I am
yours sincerly
Agnes MitchellTHE ALICE STONE BLACKWELL FUND COMMITTEE
21 Ashmont Street, Melrose 76, Massachusetts

Trustees
Mrs. ADA COMSTOCK NOTESTEIN
Mrs. MAUD WOOD PARK
Mrs. EDNA LAMPREY STANTIAL

March 26, 1950.

The friend who lovingly wrote this greeting for your
joy at Easter time passed away yesterday, but at every season
year in and year out, life holds more of joy and opportunity for
each one of us because of Alice Stone Blackwell's beautiful
life of service to humanity.
A fortnight before her death Miss Blackwell expressed
two longings - characteristically not for herself but to keep
the cause of woman's freedom alive in the minds and hearts of
coming generations. She wanted the biography of Lucy Stone put
into the libraries of all the women's colleges of the nation:
she wanted the private papers of Lucy Stone and Henry B.Blackwell
put in order and indexed so that these priceless records of the
anti-slavery and woman's movement might be available for the
future.
Some of us feel it is a privilege to help make the last
wishes of Alice Stone Blackwell come true.
Memorial contributions may be sent to the Alice Stone
Blackwell Fund, 21 Ashmont Street, Melrose 76, Massaschusetts.
Sincerely yours,
MAUD WOOD PARK
For the TrusteesC. LEVON EKSERGAIN

October 14, 1952

Dear Guy and Edna:

Already a second summer has rolled
by since our visit on your charming island,
which was made so delightful in a large measure due
to your graciousness.

I hope that both of you have again
enjoyed this last summer.

I have rather lost track of what
happened to the picture. Did the party who had
the picture ever get in touch with you, as  I
requested in my letter to her? I have presumed
that the picture was properly transferred to you,
but did not have any positive recollection that
such had actually transpired. Accordingly I
would be interested in learning if you do have
the picture, for if not, I should like to take
whatever steps are necessary for it to be turned
over to you.

With kindest regards from all of us,

Cordially yours,

Levon

Mrs. & Mrs. Guy Stantial
21 Ashmont Street
Melrose 76
Mass.[?]

HOOSHARAR 123
Circular Letter to the A.G.B.U Committees
and Chapters of America
March 7, 1950
Dear Fellow Members: 
On behalf of the Central Committee of America and in the name of our
beloved Union and people whom we all are serving with devotion, I am appealing
to all our members and Committees to support our Union, in raising their quotas
of the $150,000 annual income, as the biggest job of this year.
 By May 31, 1950, the date of our National Convention, all our chapters must
send to the Central Committee of America, the maximum they have raised for their
quota, in order to receive their share of the money for their local needs. 
 We know that the executive committees of our chapters have not been idle.
I appreciate their efforts, but I must appeal to your high sense of duty to devote all 
your time and energy for the success of our project. We are honor bound to succeed
in this our sacred aim. We cannot and must not fail, because failure in our first
effort to help our people here and everywhere will jeopardize all future activities
and projects.
Next month is the A.G.B.U. month, when we celebrate the foundation of 
our beloved Union. What pride and satisfaction can we rightfully feel in our hearts
in these celebrations, if we fail to do the one big job of the year - the raising of
$150,000. 
I am, therefore, appealing to you to concentrate all your efforts on this
purpose. Let all your meetings, gatherings, socials, entertainments and enterprises
be an occasion to raise your quota. Do not waste your A.G.B.U. month in eloquent
speeches; work for your positive purpose, by acting on the following suggestions:
1. -Form fund raising committees and appeal to every member of your chapter
to pledge a generous donation to your quota, besides his or her annual dues.
No chapter can assure permanently a high income for our organization only by dues 
and entertainments. Every member must give something more, according to his or
her ability or desire to help .
2. - On receipt of this letter, plan one or two fund raising affairs in April or 
May. Let your A.G.B.U. month celebration take the form of a positive enterprise.
The Central Committee will help you make your affair profitable by sending you
and showing to large audiences of our members and friends, beautiful and heart
rending slides of Armenian pictures brought lately from Syria, Lebanon and Jerusalem.
All Armenians who will see these pictures and hear the stories they tell us, 
will gladly help our projects by a generous contribution. 
Dear fellow members, do your best now, and your chapter will come to our
National Convention with full hands and glad hearts. 
With the sincerest good wishes for your success, I remain, 
Cordially yours, 
Y. Messiaian, Executive Director124
HOOSHARAR
The Passing of Alice Stone Blackwell
The news of the passing of Miss Alice Stone 
Blackwell, at the age of 92, will fill the hearts of
Armenians with deep sorrow. She was a genuine
friend, a noble heart and a steadfast fighter for her
ideals, principles and opinions.
The daughter of the famous suffragist, Lucy
Stone, Miss Blackwell was born to be a fighter for
noble causes. Moreover, she belonged to the generation
of New England idealists and liberals, who,
like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau, Longfellow,
Lowell, gave the most liberal direction to the life
and thought of pioneering Americans.
Alice Blackwell loved the Armenian people, especially
those Armenians who were fighting for the
freedom of their nation. She was a great humanitarian,
a lover of culture and civilization, and knowing
and loving the Armenians, she developed a keen
desire to study Armenian literature and history.
She soon found out that this long suffering people,
under foreign tyranny, were once a great nation with
a fine civilization. She also found out that the Armenian
people, at all the critical periods of their
history, had been willing to fight and sacrifice their
lives, in order to save their Christian faith, their
cultural heritage, and such moral values, that
had enriched the soul and the intelligence of the
people and had preserved the existence of the Armenian
Nation, through past centuries.
For an American idealist and a fighter like Miss
Blackwell, who by her humanitarian tendencies had
become a champion of many oppressed peoples, it
was very natural to create a mass movement in favor
of her good causes. A whole group of American men
and women were won by her activities to the causes
for which she was fighting. She won many friends
for the Armenians from among those idealistic Americans, 
who made New England the center of American
civilization, before New England was industrialized.
She translated Armenian poems into beautiful
English and published a volume of Armenian 
poetry. She talked and lectured about Armenia and
fought for the freedom of Armenians from Turkish
subjugation and persecution, defending the Armenians
against all injustices suffered by them. She 
thundered against the great powers who were selling
Armenians down the river for their own political 
and state interests.
     Her courage and perseverance were boundless
and her faith in the destiny of the Armenian nation

was like a bright flame. She was a pillar of strength
and became a scourge of righteousness, for almost
half a century, against all the enemies of our people, 
whether domestic or foreign.
     Champion of free speech and thought, proud in 
spirit, modest and very unassuming in appearance,
she was one of those loveable, magnificent and forceful
American women, who by their unwavering
faith and courage have founded a great nation.
Alice Stone Blackwell
Even in her old age, Miss Blackwell  never retired
from what she considered her duties. She defended 
the Armenian Cause by her strong denunciations 
of those conscious or unconscious Americans,
who, not knowing the real facts of our national
life and experiences, were being led astray
by enemy propaganda. Her truthful articles, her
humorous letters to the editors, filled the American
press with their resounding protests, thus giving
courage to all friends of Armenia, and to all Armenians, 
who were fighting for their good cause.
All Armenians loved her and admired her. I must
even mention the fact, that when her American friends
came to us, some years ago with an appeal to help
them raise enough money to ease her life in her old
age, we were able to show our gratitude. In a great 
ceremony which took place in Boston at the International
House, when I presented her the check made
by the Armenian donations, Miss Blackwell and all present, 
knew how real was our love for this noble, tall
lady, who had become one of our own.
May the flowers of such remembrances fall sweetly
upon her freshly opened grave, and may her
memory live forever. 
-Y. Messiaian


C     C
O     O
P      P
Y      Y
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, ss. Probate Court
To all persons interested in the estate of ALICE 
STONE BLACKWELL late of Cambridge in said County, deceased.
A petition has been presented to said Court for 
probate of certain instruments purporting to be the 
last will and one codicil of said deceased by MALCOLM 
B. DAVIS of Arlington in said County and GEORGE H. BLACKWELL 
of Lake Forest in the State of Illinois, praying 
that they be appointed executors thereof, without giving 
a surety on their bonds.
If you desire to object there to you or your attorney 
should file a written appearance in said court at Cambridge
before ten o'clock in the forenoon on the twenty-fourth 
day of May 1950, the return day of this citation.
Witness, John C. Leggat, Esquire, First Judge of 
said Court, this twenty-fourth day of April in the year 
one thousand nine hundred and fifty. 
John J. Butler, 
Register
(C) m4-11-18The Twentieth Century Association 
"For the Promotion of a Finer Public Spirit and a Better Social Order"
3 and 4 Joy Street, Beacon Hill, Boston, 8, Massachusetts
Founded in 1894
An Old Association with a Young Spirit Notable Past, Unique Present, Greater Future
TEL. Capital 7-1630
Honorary President- Dr. George William Coleman
President- Howard O. Stearns Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston 15
Honorary Chairman of the Council- Delcevare King
Honorary Vice Presidents- Mrs. Maximilian Agassiz, Hon. Richard Stewart Bowers, Judge Lawrence Graham Brooks, Dr. Godfrey Lowell Cabot, Dr. Kirtley Fletcher Mather, Frank Henry Noyes, Esq., Dr. James Libby Tryon
Vice Presidents- Mrs. Arthur Graham Robbins, Rev. George Lyman Paine, Myron Everett Pierce, Esq.
Treasurer- Leland D. Hemenway Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston 15
Recording Secretary- Miss Marjorie A. Wade
Assistant Treasurer and Executive Secretary- Mrs. Marjorie R. Moore 3 Joy Street, Boston
The Council- The Officers and Professor Russell D. Greene, Mrs. W.T Harrison, Miss Dorothy P. Kendall, Livingston Stebbins, Miss Alice F. Tilden, James L. Tyron
The Past Presidents- Edwin D. Mead, Charles F. Doyle, George Perry Morris, Fred H. Tucker, Samuel M. Crothers, John Graham Brooks, William C. Crawford, James P. Munroe, Kirtley F. Mather, Cornelius A. Parker, Frank H. Noyes, Raymond E. Shepherd, Delcevare King
The Founders- William O. Partridge, Edwin D. Mead, Edward Everett Hale, Charles H. Ames, Davis R. Dewey, Nathan Haskell Dole, John Fiske, William D. McCracken, J. Pickering Putnam, Henry Stone, Ross S. Turner, Robert A. Woods


Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 
A Resolution 

WHEREAS, Alice Stone Blackwell was a life member of the Twentieth Century Association, and 
Whereas she has exemplified in her keen insight into the social and political problems of her time the highest ideals of this Association;
BE IT RESOLVED;
           that this Association recognize the great 
           humanitarian achievements of Alice Stone Blackwell
           by having this resolution spread on the minute 
           of the Council of the Twentieth Century Association, 
           and copies of this resolution sent to;
           Mrs. Guy Stantial, 21 Ashmont St., Milton
                  for filing in the Blackwell Family Archives,
           Mr. Howard L. Blackwell, 4 Riedesel Avenue
                                                       Cambridge, Mass.
           Mrs. Anna Blackwell Belden, Chilmark, Mass.

June 12, 1950NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1950

Alice Stone Blackwell Is Dead;
Daughter of Lucy Stone Was 92

     CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 15
(UP).  - Alice Stone Blackwell,
ninety-two, pioneer suffragette
and daughter of the famous feminist
Lucy Stone, died Wednesday
night at her home after a week's
illness.
     Miss Blackwell had been a
fighter for women's rights all her
life, but she never achieved the
fame of her mother, who was one
of the first women to wear the
"bloomer dress." Her life, however,
symbolized the struggle of two
generations to win equal standing
for women. At one time she was
boomed as a candidate for President.
     Miss Blackwell's chief weapon in 
the battle for women's suffrage
was the pen and she supplied a 
steady stream of leaflets, newspaper
letters and pamphlets to keep
the movement healthy. She started
by helping her father and mother
on "The Woman's Journal" in Boston
in 1881, and later became editor
in chief of the magazine,
which was consolidated with "The
Woman Citizen" and "The Woman
Voter" in 1917.
     She translated and compiled several
books of poetry and was author
of the book "Lucy Stone, Pioneer
of Woman's Rights," in which
she chronicled the varied activities 
of her mother, the first Massachusetts
woman to go to college and
a national figure in the women's
movement. ALICE STONE BLACKWELL
Tribute of Dr. Samuel A. Eliot at the Memorial Service
held at the Arlington Street Church, Boston.
March 18, 1950

      We are gathered here, my friends, to bring our tribute of
reverence and gratitude for the life that has been so long and
so valiantly lived here among us. If indeed it were possible for
each and every one of us to express in some single sentence the
feeling that bound us to the life we here commemorate, - then
from our separate experiences and our different points of view
and of contact there would be added to the silent tribute of your
presence the fitting words of appreciation and affection. I'm
sure that we all feel that so radiant a life cannot be permitted
to pass into the silence without loving praise, while at the same
time one who tries to express our common feeling must respect the 
reserves that are the rights of a gentlewoman.

   What a rich and abundant life it was!  We don't have to
force words or pump phrases when we speak of Alice Stone Blackwell.
You know the lives of many good and pleasant people seem to lack
emphasis. They are sort of negatively good. They do the right
things but not so much on their own initiative as because others
do them or it is the custom of their set to do them. How
refreshing and invigorating to come into contact with a distinctive
personality ready to exercise an independent judgment, able to see
clearly and imagine vividly and will nobly. Here was a positive
and affirmative nature - one that said "yes" more often than "no".
She never waited for an idea or a movement to become popular. If
she believed in it she just set to work to make it popular - and
the slowness of the progressive reforms she advocated so
perseveringly, the apathy and indifference of people toward the
causes that to her were so imperative, never seemed to fret her - 
at least in public. She may have shown some natural impatience
to those nearest her and if so I'm sure that she could express her
indignation in sufficiently forcible and appropriate terms - but
to us who were her allies and admirers without being her intimates
every defeat seemed only to stiffen her backbone and her eagerness
to get into the battle again.

   Alice Blackwell came, as you know, from a sturdy, bold,
exceptionally long-lived stock. With her first breath she must
have drawn in something of her parents' devotion to the anti
slavery movement and the cause of equal rights for women. She
inherited the intellectual and moral equipment that prepared her
for the service she was to render to humanity, and she inherited,
too, a certain scorn of consequences when she knew she was on the
right road. Like her gifted mother - whose biography she wrote - 
she could speak with fine freedom, force and fluency. She
answered every summons of conscience - oh, not with the s art of
stoic resignation which is about all that some of us can muster - 
but with a resolute, contagious enthusiasm. How her penetrating
intelligence went right to the heart of any problem or emergency!
I don't think she ever knew or recognized a terminus; life to her 
was a thoroughfare.  One cause won just meant a chance to
tackle another enterprise - and at it she went without waiting to
wonder if anybody would follow her. The reward of today's success


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was just the vista of tomorrow's tasks and the recompense of duty
done was more duty to do - and more joy in doing it. The good
obtained was just tidings of something better.

   What a faculty she had of putting herself in the place of
abused and oppressed and underprivileged people! That took keen
imagination as well as sympathy and compassion. She valued men
and women, did she not, not by conventional standards but by
their intrinsic worth. Her own candor and vigorous common-sense
scattered all the trivial artificialities of our social intercourse.
Her talk was entertaining, instructive but not pedantic,
and sometimes a bit provocative. She lived on a high plane of
thought and action but did not fail to see the humorous side of
things and could sometimes laugh at herself and at, or with, some
of her strong-minded associates.

   There was nothing vague or obscure in her thinking. Right
was right and wrong was wrong. She dwelt in no neutral zone, and
she had no use for compromises when moral issues were at stake.
She was well assured that what is morally wrong can never be
politically right. Courage and confidence were the good angels
that dwelt with her and through her breathed a benediction on us
all.

   How wide and prodigal too were her sympathies. They overflowed
all boundaries. They were as broad as humanity - including
white and black, Greek and Armenian, bond and free. She could say
with Lowell:

"Wherever wrong is done
To this humblest and the weakest 'neath the all beholding sun,
That wrong is also done to us; and they are slaves most base,
Whose love of right is for themselves, and not for all their
race."

   I don't remember that I ever talked with her about religion.
Somehow the pre-eminence of the spiritual values seemed to be just
taken for granted. I am sure that for her the great commandments
were not those that begin "Thou shalt not" but those that begin
"Thou shalt". For her religion was not a static formula but a 
dynamic process - not renunciation but the multiplication of freedom 
and power. To accept the rich privileges of life with an
alert body, an eager mind, a lively imagination, a steadfast
purpose - that was to her the Father's business in which she had
a responsible partnership.

   So she lived her 92 years, vivid, resilient - in communion
with all sorts and conditions of men, in constant pursuit of the
things that are just and lovely and of good report, in the faith
that this mysterious and majestic universe is well ordered - and 
then, with no wasting malady or long decay, the end was peace.page 3 - Tribute of Dr. Samuel A.Elliot to Alice Stone Blackwell

In the biography of her mother, Lucy Stone, Miss Blackwell
printed some verses which her mother had clipped from a newspaper
and had beside her as she lay quietly dying. They seem as
appropriate for the daughter as for the mother:

"Up and away like the dew of the morning,
That soars from the earth to its home in the sun,
So let me steal away, gently and lovingly,
Only remembered by what I have done.

"Needs there the praise of the love-written record,
The name and the epitaph graved on the stone?
The things we have lived for, let them be our story,
We ourselves but remembered by what we have done.

"Not myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken,
Not myself, but the seed that in life I have sown,
Shall pass on to ages, all about me forgotten,
Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done."


TRIBUTES TO ALICE STONE BLACKWELL

The following sonnet was written by Mr. William LLoyd Garrison, Jr.
in 1936:

To Alice Stone Blackwell

She sweeps the wife horizon with her glass
Watching the human drama unroll,
And, tracing the events upon her scroll,
Divines the meaning of what comes to pass.
Across the years her clear coherent speech
Has flashed like sunlight through a rifted cloud
To lend illumination when the crowd
With cruel hands the weak has sought to reach.

The Psalmists' days have passed her with a smile,
Her heresies enjoy the guise of law,
And now, with Delphic word at her command,
Beside her tripod at the cavern's maw,
With flame-tipped thoughts does she the world beguile
And, as of old, drive darkness from the land.

(Road at her Memorial Service by the minister
of Arlington Street Church, Rev. Dana McLean
Greeley.)

From the Boston Branch, National Association for the Advancement
of the Colored People:
"No more valiant fighter for human freedom, equality
and advancement ever lived than Alice Stone Blackwell.
She devoted her life to battling for the human rights
of every group which has been the victim of discrimination
and injustice. In mourning her death the Boston
Branch of the NAACP rejoice in her glorious life and
will forever cherish her memory."

From the India Group:
"Saddened to hear of Alice Stone Blackwell's passing.
Not only the peoples of India and Pakistan but all of
us who have believed in that tomorrow when we may all
walk with our heads raised high, how those heads: in
prayer and farewell to a gallant and courageous woman
and American who lived in the tradition of a Thoreau,
A Lincoln and a Lucy Stone. Good night, Miss Blackwell."Tributes to Alice Stone Blackwell:

From the Armenian General Benevolent Union.

The passing of Alice Stone Blackwell is deeply mourned
by all Armenians, together with millions of others born and
reared in an atmosphere of idealism. Her 92 years of
life from adolescence to the borders of eternity were
dedicated to the cause of justice and charity.True to the
pioneering spirit of her parents, she soon became and 
remained to the last a staunch supporter of the rights of
her sex. Her deep sympathies for the Armenians and her
devotion to their cause have never been surpassed. In
abject humility we bow our heads in reverence to her memory
and in grateful acknowledgment of her services,
(signed) The Armenian General Benevolent UnionFebruary 21, 1951

Mrs. Charles Belden
1 Craigie Street
Dear Mrs. Belden:

Mrs. Guy Stantial has informed me that the
late Alice Stone Blackwell's picture of a "Boy Pushing
Wheelbarrow", painted by my father, Carnig Eksergian,
is now in your possession.

Being the godson of Miss Blackwell, and
also the subject of the picture, Miss Blackwell had
mentioned in various letters that she had written me
before her death, that I was to receive the picture.

In the meantime I have come to know Mrs.
Guy Stantial, and have been much impressed with the
ceaseless and tireless work which Mrs. Stantial has done
on behalf of Miss Blackwell. Knowing of her close
relationship to Miss Blackwell, and the mutual regard
that the one had for the other - plus the fact that
Mrs. Stantial was particularly fond of this picture -
I should like to waive my claim to the picture in favor
of Mrs. Stantial.

Accordingly I would appreciate it greatly
if you would be good enough to have the picture turned
over to Mrs. Stantial at the following address:

Mrs. Guy Stantial
21 Ashmont Street
Melrose 16, Mass.

I am sending her a copy of this letter so
that mutual satisfactory arrangements can be made with
respect to having the picture transferred to her home.

I wish to thank you in advance for your
courtesies and trust that these arrangements will not
inconvenience you.

Sincerely,

C. Levon Eksergian
CC Mrs. Stantial

Dear Edna and Guy - Want you to have the picture.
Let me know if there's any "hitch" - my best always
Levon[??]

Bostonia
Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.
The Boston University Alumni Magazine

Contents

The Habitual Vision of Greatness, by Dr. Daniel L. Marsh . . 5
Chapel Gifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Recipients of Honorary Degrees . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Convocation Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Religion and Racial Tensions, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays and Dr.
Emory S. Bogardus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The School of Theology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Guy W. Cox Organ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Religion in Tension with Communism, Bishop G. Bromley
Oxnam and Dr. John Bennett . . . . . . . . . . 15
Religion and Theological Tensions, Rev. George Florovsky
and Dr. Daniel D. Williams . . . . . . . . . . 17
Tensions in World Religions, Drs. Chan, Rajo and Diffendorfer 19
Religion and Industrial Tensions, Dr. Walter P. Reuther and
Dr. Herman W. Steinkraus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Religion and Educational Tensions, Dr. Louis Finkelstein . . 24
The Daniel L. Marsh Chapel . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Religion and Philosophical Tensions, Drs. Jacques Maritain
and Arthur E. Murphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Liturgy and Architecture in the Service of Vital Religion, Dr.
Edward N. West, A'30 . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Alice Stone Blackwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Tension in Our Times, Dr. Georgia Harkness . . . . . . 35
Frontispiece photo by David Lawlor.
All speeches have been edited and practically all have
been abbreviated.

GENERAL OFFICERS
President, Mrs. Charles A. Tierney, P'36
Vice-President, John J. O'Hare, L'22
Vice-President, Emil M. Hartl, T'31

Vice-President, Elinor G. Stanford, Nur'47
Treasurer, E. Ray Speare, A'94
Recording Secretary, Mrs. Kenneth R. Parsons, A'20

Executive Alumni Secretary, Arthur E. Jenner, A'27

STAFF: Arthur E. Jenner, A'27, Editor; Paul A. Pollock, SPR'48, Associate Editor; Charles A. Poulson, Jr., SPR'50, Class Notes Editor; Ralph Norman, Staff Photographer. EDITORIAL BOARD: Mrs. Virginia L. Tierney, P'36; Mr. David Brickman, B'31/32; Mr. Clifton Follansbee, B'36; Dr. Judson R. Butler, G'40; Miss Jane Donovan, P'45. PUBLISHING DETAILS: No. 6, Volume XXIII, April, 1950. Published monthly from October through June inclusively by the BOSTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, Member of the American Alumni Council. Editorial offices: 308 Bay State Road, Boston 15, Massachusetts. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Boston, Massachusetts, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, April 1950, by the Boston University Alumni Association. Subscription: $2.00 per year, included in the Annual Alumni Fund Contribution. Single copy 25 cents.ALICE STONE BLACKWELL
A Tribute to Miss Blackwell will appear in the May issue of Bostonia.

     ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, A.B. '81, L.H.D. '45,
nationally known suffragist who helped bring to fruition
the sweeping social changes advocated by her famous
mother, the late Lucy Stone, died on March 15, 1950, at
her home in Cambridge. She had been ill about one week.
Born in East Orange, New Jersey, September 14, 1857,
the daughter of Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone, Miss
Blackwell had championed the cause of womankind during
her entire life.
     Along with her other accomplishments Miss Blackwell
was internationally known as a poet and translator. She
was graduated from Boston University in 1881 and
awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from
Boston University in June 1945. From 1881 to 1893 Miss
Blackwell assisted her father and mother in editing the 
Woman's Journal. She was editor-in-chief until 1917,
when the paper was consolidated with the Woman Citizen
and the Woman Voter (National American Woman Suffrage
Association).
     Miss Blackwell on her 89th birthday told interviewers
that "Women's Suffrage hasn't done all the good we intended 
it should, and on the other hand, neither has it done
the harm its opponents predicted." She received her early
education at Chauncy Hall before graduating from Boston
University. Among the first of her notable achievements
was the union of the National and American Woman
Suffrage Associations which had been divided for 20
years. Miss Blackwell was recording secretary of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association for 20
years, and for many years headed the New England and
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Associations.

     She was honorary president of the Massachusetts
League of Women Voters since its organization in 1920.
She was presidential elector for LaFollette in 1924, and
was an honorary trustee of Boston University. She had
membership in the American Association of University
Women and was past president of the Boston chapter.
She was honorary vice-chairman of the Boston Evening
Clinic and Hospital.

     In 1930, a book entitled "Lucy Stone, Pioneer of
Women's Rights," was published under her authorship.
She had edited "The Little Grandmother of the Russian
Revolution," Catherine Brshkovsky's story, in 1917. Besides
writing poetry, she had translated and compiled 
"Armenian Poems," "Songs of Russia," "Songs of Grief"
and "Gladness" (from the Yiddish), and "Some Spanish-
American Poets." She helped compile "The Yellow Ribbon
Speaker" in 1911. A few weeks before her death,
Miss Blackwell presented her collection of Latin American
books to the Chenery Library of Boston University. In
1919 she received the Ford Hall Forum gold medal for
honored service to humanity. The pen was her chief
weapon and she authored numerous pamphlets, articles,
and letters along with her other writings.

     Miss Blackwell was a persuasive speaker. Her topics
changed with the times. She advocated reform wherever
oppression existed. She didn't restrict her reforms to
America. Armenia, Spain, and Russia were some of the
foreign lands where the impact of her work was felt.
Her eloquence was outstanding. A distinguished lawyer
once said he attended suffrage meetings whenever he could
because he considered Miss Blackwell's rebuttal speeches
the ablest presentation of controversial matter he had ever
heard.

     Miss Blackwell's unselfishness was unbounded. Some
years ago she felt it was wrong to spend money upon herself.
She moved into an apartment and donated her large
house and grounds in Dorchester to the New England Hospital
for Women and Children. The property was returned
when hospital authorities decided it was too costly to remodel.
Subsequently, she gave it to poor Russian and
Jewish women for vegetable gardens. She is survived
by two cousins, Howard L. Blackwell and Mrs. Anna
Blackwell Belden, both of Cambridge.

34the modernist has to offer, out of sheer annoyance with the 
type of mind which seems to require that a candlestick 
look like anything in the world other than a candlestick, 
and which seems to have but one criterion, "If it has ever 
been done before, it can't be good."

Our job is to feed our people timeless food in a form 
which their twentieth century stomachs may digest. Vital 
religion is a functional thing, and without getting unduly 
involved with the "Functionalists" as a school, we must 
face the fact that our people need the real thing - that 
which is eternally true. It will be neither exclusively fourteenth 
century nor twenty-first century, but it will be that 
which is true in both. 

III

The minimum architectural requirements for historic 
Christian worship are: an altar or communion table, a 
font, a pulpit, a place for the singers, and adequate room 
for pastor and people.  
 
Nothing to date has been an improvement on the simple 
table-altar arrangement which has characterized all the 
best periods of church architecture. Whether it be in 
St. John Lateran or King's Chapel, Boston, the basic requirement 
is met - a table where, to the faithful, Christ 
is known again in the breaking of bread. It is well to 
remember that most of the adornments to which we are 
accustomed are not only unnecessary, but are often undesirable. 
Vital religion is not helped by anything which 
creates the impression that display is more important than 
offering. We have then at this moment fixed the center of 
our spiritual attention, and the shape of the building which 
houses it is determined by this focal point. The altar must 
be visible to everyone in the church if there is to be any 
such thing as corporate worship. No church built to meet
the needs of our people will, in our day, be built so that 
any single person finds himself behind a column. 

The font, traditionally, was placed by an entrance to the 
church; this can still be done either at an entrance on the 
side opposite the pulpit - thus making "public" baptism 
public, or it may be placed near the main entrance, but it 
must be in a position where the whole congregation can 
turn and see it. Baptism without public witness is alien to 
every right instinct of the Christian tradition. 

All religious bodies now agree that the preaching of the 
Gospel must have its due honor. Preaching is not the center 
of worship, but it can be the human touch which makes the 
Gospel's message timely and the worship more 
intelligent. Americans hate to be shut in, shut out or shut 
up; in America, therefore, the preacher must be visible to 
all of his people. (It has been noted that the smaller the 
area the preacher has available for his physical movement, 
the more likely he is to stick to the point.) These 
requirements for the pulpit will have placed it considerably
to one side of the altar, so that it doesn't interfere 
with anyone's line of vision. One of the best liturgiologists 
in England has now decided that the hated "three-
decker" pulpit is, in reality, one of the best contrivances 
ever devised for saying the Offices, reading the Scriptures, 
and preaching the Gospel.[*6*]

The Oxford Movement has moved most of our choirs 
forward, and the vested choir is now so much part of normal 
parochial procedure that it would probably do nothing 
but damage to attempt to replace it in its gallery. On 
the other hand, a divided chancel choir is an impossible 
arrangement, unless the parish is rich enough to maintain 
two perfectly balanced independent choirs - a not too 
likely situation. It is wise to consider placing the choir 
behind the altar, and on the same level as the congregation. 
This still permits the ceremonial use of the vested 
choir, but, more important, it makes the choir itself a 
portion of the worshipping congregation. The organ console 
may then be sunk in the floor behind the altar. This 
leaves the strongly lighted altar, on its three steps, as a 
psychological curtain between the singers and the congregation - 
the most effective screen yet devised. It gives the 
organist control of his choir and enables him to hear the 
complete mixture of sound as it will reach the congregation.   
By keeping the chancel recess sufficiently shallow, 
the choir will be able to see the preacher, which is most 
desirable. To hear a voice and see no man was found to 
be disconcerting even in apostolic times. 

The seating in American churches is another difficult 
problem. The old family pew was an attractive institution     

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A young Boston University father points out to the young 
lad in his arms, the names of the famous men who attended 
the convocation.   

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