Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Turkish Government, Mr. Adossides is peculiarly well informed as to the Sultan's policy. His liberal political convictions brought him a sentence of death, and as a result he escaped to France. There, and also in England, he has written and lectured extensively during the past five years on eastern European customs and governments. In his lecture tonight, Mr. Adossides will discuss the civil and financial misrule of Turkey, its secret service, press-censorship, and police, and will dwell on the decline of Turkish power as shown in the present state of the army and navy...
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...
Sentenced to death because of his liberal political convictions, Mr. Adossides escaped to France, where, as well as in England, he has during the past five years, written and lectured extensively on matters pertaining to Eastern European governments...
Berea College, situated in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, is an institution for the education of the negroes, and more especially the "poor whites" of the Alleghany and Blue Ridge Mountains, the stock from which Abraham Lincoln came. It is endeavoring to do for the people of that region what the Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes are doing for the negroes in the south...
...Yale. The most important changes are the appointments of Walter Camp as advisory coach and of W. L. Lush as head coach. Mr. Camp will hold the same position in regard to baseball that he has held for several years toward football. Mr. Lush has played on the Eastern League, the Cleveland American League and the Boston National League teams. As to the team itself the outlook is hardly encouraging. A number of the old players have left college and among the upper classes there is little new material. Of last year's players there are now in college: Captain...