Word: civilizations
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Dean Ames of the Law School introduced the speaker, who began by showing that when free speech and free learning were prohibited in the South as a whole, they were preserved in the mountain districts of Eastern Kentucky by the abolitionist pioneers. Berea College was founded during the Civil War and thirty-nine years ago negroes were admitted. Its first work was to assist the process of reconstruction and to start the negro in his new life...
...following courses to the curriculum of the Summer School this year: Homer (for teachers); Virgil (for teachers); Classical Archeology (for teachers and students); Anglo-Saxon; Intermediate German (for teachers); Introductory Phonetics (for teachers and students); Dante (for teachers and students); Advanced Spanish (for teachers); Roman, European and American History; Civil Government; Advanced Comparative Psychology; General Principles of Education; Organization and Administration of Schools; History of Education: Theory of Pure Design; Drawing and Painting; Theory of Architectural Design: History of European Architecture to 1000 A.D.; Organic Chemistry; Research Work...
Professor L. J. Johnson '87, of the civil engineering department, will speak under the auspices of the Engineering Society in Pierce 110 this evening at 8 o'clock on "Experiments on the Weight of Crowds of People...
...president of the Long Island Railroad. As chairman of the trustees of the General Education Board he was one of the chief promoters of negro education in the south. He was also a trustee of Tuskegee Institute and of Smith College, and was actively connected with both social and civil reform movements in New York City...
...conference of the National Arbitration Committee held in Washington last January. At the invitation of China and Japan he participated in the peace negotiations which closed the recent war between these countries. Mr. Foster studied for one year in the Harvard Law School. He served in the Civil War with the rank of colonel, and was brevetted brigadier-general for bravery. He is the author of "A Century of American Diplomacy" and "American Diplomacy in the Orient...