Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fencing tournament for the championship of New England in foils, duelling swords and sabres will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at the Boston Athletic Association on Exeter street. Medals for first, second, and third places in each event will be awarded by the Amateur Fencers' League of America...
...President Eliot, the editor finds time to express regret that Harvard is so strongly representative of New England and to wish that more members of its Faculty might hall from other sections, thereby bringing to Harvard a broadening influence, and making it "not only the greatest University in America, but the greatest American University...
Slavery and the slave trade, Professor DuBois said, began with the appearance at Lisbon in 1442 of 30 negro slaves These excited the cupidity of the Portuguese traders, who realized the superiority of negro labor over Indian labor in working the gold mines of America. The slave trade was then successively taken up by the Dutch, the English, and finally in 1807 by the Americans, the transportation of slaves growing from several thousand in 1450 to over 60,000 in 1790. The present condition of the negro race is due in great measure to the past terrible brutality...
...Professor A. F. Chamberlain, of Clark University, on "What our Civilization Owes to the American Indian," and the third, some time after the April recess, by Mr. H. I. Smith, of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, on "Recent Anthropological Investigations on the Northwest Coast of America...
Professor DuBois is undoubtedly the most thoroughly trained and highly educated member of his race in America, and has already made himself an authority on several historical and sociological questions. His doctor's thesis, a monograph on slave trade, was printed as one of the "Harvard Historical Studies." He has written on the condition of the negro in Philadelphia, and in Georgia and other parts of the South. His main literary work. "The Souls of Black Folk," is one of the most striking books that has been written recently by any Harvard graduate, and marks...