Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Four transports from Cuba containing about 1270 Cuban teachers arrived at the Charlestown Navy Yard during the first few days in July. A few more teachers came later bringing the total up to 1283. All the teachers were immediately taken to Cambridge in special electric cars and assigned to their respective rooms...
...course of instruction offered to the Cuban teachers included recitations, lectures and excursions. English classes of about thirty members met twice a day including Saturday. Between the two lessons in English, lectures were given daily in Sanders Theatre. Among the subjects covered by the lectures were: Geography, U. S. History, History of the Spanish Colonies, American Schools, Psychology and Public Libraries. All the lectures were given in Spanish and many illustrated by stereopticon views. The women were also given an elementary course in kindergarten training, and the men exercises in Sloyd at the Cambridge Manual Training School. The afternoons were...
...evening of August 14, the day previous to the Cubans' departure, a farewell concert was held in Sanders, the Cubans rendering most of the music. There, on behalf of the Cuban teachers, Senor Ruiz Tamayo of Santiago presented to President Eliot a large loving cup, nearly two feet in height, engraved with the following inscription in Spanish...
...this concert the decorations in the theatre combined the Cuban and American flags, with the coats of arms of Harvard, Cuba, and the United States...
Frederick Gilbert Bauer, who will give the Latin salutatory on the subject of "The Cuban Teachers," lives in Jamaica Plain. He prepared for Harvard at the Boston Latin School, graduating with the Class of '97. Since entering College he has received a Detur and Highest Second Year Honors in Classics. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society...