Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...General Armstrong of the U. S. School for Indians is to give a course of lectures at Yale on the "Education of the colored and Indian races...
...TUESDAY."The Religious Education of the Negro." Lecture. General S. C. Armstrong, of Hampton, Va. Sanders Theatre...
...General Armstrong, of Hampton, Va., will deliver two lectures before the University next week-one on the "Education of the Negro" and the other on the "Education of the Indian." These are the lectures which he recently delivered at Yale by invitation. Professor Peabody was instrumental in inducing him to lecture here...
...last year, and this position will be easily filled from the number of those who are trying for the nine. The following men are at present in training: Brown, Clarke and Wilson from '89; Brown, Campbell, Corliss. Durand and Perry, '90; Arthur, Cox, Holhster, Hotchkiss, Luce, Thompson, '91; and Armstrong, Campbell, Davies, McKean, Mapes, Roberts, Woodward, '92. Among these. Hotchkiss, Luce, and Campbell, '92, will be readily recognized as old Andover men. The men are now doing gymnasium work; but as soon as possible they will practice on the field, and a second nine will be selected to play against...
...General Armstrong then described the work at his school, and showed how much both Negroes and Indians had improved in the last twenty years. The whites of the South have been intimidated into education by the progress of the blacks. The state of Mississippi is doing more for the instruction of the Negroes than is done by Massachusetts. The great trouble, however, is the lack of teachers...