Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...aim of the Tuskegee Institute is to train the young Southern Negroes as intelligent and capable farmers and artisans, and to teach them to regain the industrial supremacy which in their ignorance they lost after the war. It is in this effort to raise the industrial status, and with it the mental and moral conditions of the negro race, that the Institute appeals for the co-operation and aid of those who regard the interests of the black people and the interests of the whole country, which for good or evil, must be indissolubly intertwined with them...
...Compromise in 1820, and will discuss the civilization of the cotton states under the slavery regime. Particular attention will be given to the topics discussed and the reasoning employed in such books as Cairnes's "Slave Power" and Von Holst's "Constitutional History." It will be the lecturer's aim to make plain the effects of slavery and the plantation system on the people of the cotton states and the causes which gave these states the hege mony of the South and a marked ascendency in the Union. The second lecture will treat the policies initiated and carried...
...mysteries and truths of theology and poetry; he was one of the pure in heart who "shall see God." "Simplicity of character, charity of mind, purity of heart," were Dean Everett's characteristics. "The life of the spirit was his habitual abiding place, the pursuit of truth his constant aim, and he was ever ready to accept the promise that to be spiritually minded is life and peace...
...meeting in the interest of Hampton Institute will be held in the First-Congregational Church, next Sunday at 7.30 p. m. Rev. H. B. Turner, the chaplain, will be present to describe the aim and purpose of the School in its work of fitting missionary teachers for the schools, shops, and churches of the South and West. The stereopticon will be used to show the school in its beginnings and its present quarters. Views of the buildings, classrooms, work-shops, trade school, domestic science and agricultural departments will be given. The Hampton Quartette will sing some old plantation songs...
...mistake to associate photography with creative art or try to make it imitate the processes of creative art. Vague, deceptive or idealized memory or history is bad. These pleasing changes, being mechanically caused, are mere illusions, and the pleasure we can take in them is shallow. Photographs should aim at being true, but there is no limit to the beauty and interest which photographs may have, in the same way in which real people and things may have beauty...