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Madikane Qandiyane Cele, a Zulu prince of the royal line, gave an interesting talk on the plans and purposes of the Armstrong Institute to be founded in Africa. It is the purpose of this institution to train the negro to apply brain training to the use of his hands...
...Cele mentioned the superstition still existing among the Zulus which requires the king when he is crowned to cut the throat of a tiger which has been caught alive by the naked hands of a certain number of young men, the idea being that the tiger's fierceness is transmitted to the king. It is the superstitions of this nature which must be dispelled before the race can make great progress towards civilization...
...Mandikane Cele will speak in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock on the "Armstrong Institute in Africa." This organization has been proposed by a number of the prominent educators and business men of the East. It has been planned on the order of the Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, where Mr. Cele has spent seven years as a student. His thorough acquaintance with the established institution in Virginia makes him well fitted to deal with the new and similar organization...
...Appointments for Dramatic Club trials in Brentford 33. 4.30.--**Memorial meeting for Dean Coes in Sanders Theatre. 8.00.--*Lecture by Mr. Mandikane Cele in Living Room of Union...
Several of the most eminent educators and business men of the East have planned gradually to build up in Africa an institute, similar to the Hampton Institute in Virginia, and to put Mr. Cele in charge of it. Their belief is that the way to solve the negro problem is to give the negroes confidence and intelligence through work well done. This committee consists of: President A. Lawrence Lowell '77, President Faunce of Brown; Mr. F. Kelsey of the Yale Corporation and president of the Title Guarantee Trust Company of New York; Dr. Henry B. Frissell, president of the Hampton...