Word: africa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Study Class to Discuss Africa...
John R. Mott penetrated the student classes in Europe, Asia and Africa, and built up Christian movements there. He is the recognized leader of religious work among students in this country. With this glorious lifework as the background for his subject he comes to address us. But his subject aside, Dr. Mott has a personality that stimulates, and an understanding of life that unveils many of its mysteries...
Captain Mandikane Q. Cele, the Zulu prince, who gave an interesting talk in the Union last December, is leaving soon for Africa to found a school for the negroes of his native land. This school is to be known as the Armstrong Institute and is backed by Harvard, Yale, and Brown...
...figures compiled by Rudolf Tombo, Jr., there are 2,084 foreign students in 44 of the leading American colleges. Nearly half of these men have been contributed by Asia, this continent having 42.2 per cent of the total. The remainder come from North America, Europe, South America, Australia, and Africa. Columbia leads in the enrolment of foreigners for the past year with 187. Harvard is seventh with 137. The increase during the past two years...
...about five, while the more influential members possess about thirty. Mr. Cele is well fitted to conduct a trade school to teach the Africans, having taken courses in blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, carpentry, upholstery, shoemaking, painting and agriculture at Hampton Institute. The trouble with many missionaries who have gone to Africa has been that they have had no practical experience in actual work, being only fitted to train the minds of the Africans. By the system which will be employed at the Armstrong Institute, the physical side of the negro will be developed first, leaving the higher mental development to come later...