Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Both of the games arranged by the Williams nine with the Bostons had to be postponed on account of unfavorable weather...
Sanders Theatre was well filled last evening by an audience of the best people of Cambridge and many students from the college. Mr. Longfellow, after giving a short account of the work Senator Dawes is now trying to accomplish in Congress, introduced Walter Baptiste, an Indian of the Sac and Fox tribe, who spoke on "What will you do with the Indian." He gave a vivid picture of life in Dacotah and spoke of the influence for good which graduates of such schools as the Hampton Institute are exerting on their own people. He appealed for more education...
...Longfellow next introduced Gen. Armstrong, prefacing his introduction with an account of the two societies in Cambridge organized for the aid of the Indian race, - a Branch of the Woman's National Indian Association, which aims to directly benefit the Indians by personal help and by missionary work in the West and at the schools, and a Branch of the Indian Race Association, which devotes its attention to the protection of Indians...
...which the Government is now furnishing, and of giving instead an opportunity for the Indian to earn his daily bread on lands which he himself can own apart from the tribal lands. Gen. Armstrong concluded his address with suggestions in regard to the government's policy, and an interesting account of the Hampton Institute and its work...
...granting that the two systems are equally good so far as quality goes, the spirit of instruction must be taken into account. The discipline and instruction of sectarian schools is likely to develop men prejudiced in favor of particular church dogmas and creeds. Said a seminarian, who had always attended the schools of his church, in discussing evolution with a gentleman who seemed open to the doctrine, "What, do you want it proved true?" Too often the life of the teachers in parochial schools is so wrapped up in their profession that the education they impart fits...