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November 27.--Booker T. Washington...
...especially interesting series of lectures has been arranged for the coming season. Booker T. Washington h.'96, Wilfred T. Grenfell h.'09, and Percy MacKaye '97, have already been definitely engaged and the following have also promised to speak if suitable dates can be arranged: General Leonard Wood M.'84, Augustus E. Wilson '69, F. Hopkinson Smith, and Henry Cabot Lodge...
...honorary pall bearers are men who were personal friends of Colonel Higginson. Booker T. Washington would have acted as pall bearer had he been able to come from the South where he now is. The pall bearers are as follows: President Eliot, President Lowell, Charles Francis Adams '56, Andrew Carnegie, Rev. Edward Cummings '83, Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson '66, Colonel Norwood Penrose Hallowell '61, Governor John Davis Long '57, George Harrison Mifflin...
...overrated. In the old days the southerners entrusted the protection of their wives, mothers, sweethearts and daughters to negroes. Today the newspapers are filled with accounts of their atrocious crimes. This is the direct result of taking them from the plow and setting them at the spelling book. Mr. Booker Washington's level-headed work in coaxing them back to manual labor is praiseworthy in the extreme. Granting the negro his freedom instantaneously was a mistake, but above all the mistake of granting them the right to vote is to blame for the present lamentable condition of the black race...
...meeting held last night in the Old South Church, Boston, in the interest of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, President Lowell was the first speaker. He introduced Booker T. Washington, the principal speaker, as a man who has done more than any other for the elevation of the Negro race, and a man who should be universally admired and respected...