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William Garrott Brown '91, an author and historical writer of note, died in New Canaan, Connecticut day before yesterday after a long illness. Born at Marion, Alabama, on April 24, 1868, his preliminary education was completed at Howard College in that state, from which he entered to advanced standing in Harvard, graduating in 1891 with highest honors in history. In 1892 he received the degree of Master of Arts and for three years after this he was assistant in the Library in charge of the Archives,--a position which gave him an opportunity to study and to write...
...Indiana, 0 2 0 2 Iowa, 0 1 0 1 Michigan, 1 1 3 4 Minnesota, 1 4 2 1 Missouri, 2 2 2 3 Nebraska, 1 1 0 0 Ohio, 3 10 8 9 Wisconsin, 1 0 1 2 Total, 11 25 24 43 South Central Division. Alabama, 1 0 0 0 Arkansas, 0 0 0 1 Kentucky, 1 1 0 2 Louisiana, 0 0 0 1 Oklahoma, 0 1 0 1 Texas, 0 1 1 0 Total, 2 3 1 5 Western Division. California, 0 0 0 3 Colorado, 1 0 0 0 Idaho...
...only Tuskegee Institute, but scores of other institutions are examples of the progress the negro has made. In 1881, Dr. Washington started Tuskegee Institute in an old school-house in Alabama with only one teacher and thirty students. It now includes over 1300 students both men and women, 176 instructors, 3000 acres of land, and about 100 buildings, erected almost entirely by the students. These physical forces are not an end but a means for a great purpose. The negro masses had a consuming ambition for education, but along with this was a feeling that once educated it would...
...hundred miles "by walking and begging rides both in wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor in the same institution. In 1881 he was called upon to organize and become the head of a negro normal school at Tuskegee, Alabama, for which the State legislature had made an annual appropriation. Opened in July 1881 in a little shanty and church, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute became under his administration the foremost exponent of industrial education for the negro race. Harvard University conferred upon him the honorary degree...
...country and the second groups the states into geographical divisions. In no case is a dropped Freshman counted, and for this reason the total registration of the class is less than given in the official figures published Wednesday morning. Distribution by States and Countries. Old Plan New Plan Total Alabama, 0 1 1 Colorado, 0 1 1 Connecticut, 17 3 20 Dist. of Columbia, 0 3 3 Georgia, 0 1 1 Illinois, 8 2 10 Indiana, 0 0 0 Iowa, 0 0 0 Kentucky, 0 1 1 Maine, 3 2 5 Maryland, 1 0 1 Massachusetts, 401 34 435 Michigan...