Word: booker
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual trials for the Boylston Prizes for Elocution held last week, A. A. Rouner '20, and F. C. Packard '20, were awarded the two first prizes of $30 each. Their addresses dealt respectively with the "American Standard," taken from a speech of Booker T. Washington '96, and a poem by Alfred Noyes, "The Highwayman." Three second prizes of $20 each were also awarded as follows: R. E. Eckstein '20, "Joan of Arc," by Quincy; V. A. Kramer '18 ocC., extracts from a speech of President Wilson on the League of Nations; E. B. Schwults '19, "The Monroe Doctrine." The judges...
...Ways in India"; J. Timbs, "English Eccentrics and Eccentricities"; J. White, "Book-Song"; R. Datta, "Echoes from East and West", Stories in Blank Verse" and "Poems, Pictures and Songs"; R. Cust, "The Life of Benvenuto Cellini"; G. Pyke, "To Ruhleben and Back"; E. J. Scott and L. B. Stone, "Booker T. Washington"; R. Tagore, "The Hungry Stories"; I. Zangiwill, "The War for the World"; H. G. Wells, "Mr. Britling Sees it Through"; I. F. Marcosson and D. Frohman, "Charles Frohman"; R. Service, "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man"; M. Hewlett, "Gal Saber...
...Booker T. Washington h.'96, president of the Tuskegee Institute, spoke to an audience of about 300 in the Trophy Room of the Union last evening. The first part of his talk was an account of his life and the hardships which he encountered in making his way to Hampton Institute, where he secured his education. Following this he told of his resolve to take up work in the black belt of Alabama, and his development of the Tuskegee Institute; and closed with a few evidences of the progress of his race, and an enumeration of the opportunities for useful...
...Lecture by Booker T. Washington in Trophy Room of Union...
...Lecture by Booker T. Washington in Theatre of Agassiz House...