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...Beecher started Northerners talking about spirituals and about Fisk-the School for freedmen which a Union General, Clinton Bowen Fisk, a Union Chaplain, Erastus Milo Cravath, and a Union schoolteacher, one John Ogden, established after the War in the Union Barracks at Nashville. Erastus Cravath, its first president and father of famed Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan Opera's Board Chairman, took the Jubilee Singers abroad after their New York success, to Stockholm where they gave 52 concerts in a single season, to England where Queen Victoria was a disappointment to them because she received them...
...news every few hours. As the strain of examinations lifts more and more men annually ape the antics of the monk of Siberia whose prospects grew drearier until he burst from his cell with a loud scream. Already reports are drifting in from the expeditions of the more original freedmen. A pair of enterprising Martin Johnsons have gone on a pigeon hunt along the streets of Boston and Cambridge, popping at their feathered friends in the eaves of prominent buildings of the town with small damage to the birds but considerable carnage of the glassware in windows and street-lights...
...Liberia is a large country, ruled by a few thousand Negroes, the descendants of immigrant freedmen from the United States. This handful of Americo-Liberians struggles to maintain a European civilization in the unhealthy lowlands along the coast, and has nominal control over many savage native tribes in the hinterland. The country is completely undeveloped and the outlook from every point of view has been, until very recently, most disheartening...
...winds, of low and cloudy mountains. Most of the people who live there are black or brown or yellowish because of their African blood; this was true also some hundred years ago, but then, beside the 500,000 sweating black slaves and the 24,000 effete, lazy, clever yellow freedmen, there were 40,000 whites-French planters, who danced and tippled in the big houses and ruled the island. Some of them often gathered in the billiard room of the Hotel de la Couronne where their scores were marked by a coal black nigger boy called Henry Christophe. He listened...
...that of Howard University at Washington, which also has departments of dentistry and pharmacy, and the Meharry Medical College, Nashville. Both have improved rapidly and are ranked as "Class A" institutions; but, for quantity production, they are painfully inadequate. Twice as many candidates as are admitted apply annually. The Freedmen's Hospital maintains a training school for nurses, but is vastly overtaxed. This hospital and Howard University are supported by the Government under the Interior Department. There are many white medical schools open to the Negroes, but only about a dozen graduate from them each year. "Only Government action...