Word: land
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...discussing this question, Mr. Macy pointed out what socialism really stands for. Among other things it provides for the passing of land and production from the control of the profit-making few to the control of the consuming masses. The success of this movement depends on whether the majority of people can be brought to believe in it, and although it will undoubtedly be forced upon the country by the course of events, its coming can be hastened by greater enthusiasm on the part of its supporters. Harvard men and all college men in general can help on the cause...
...Peirce ex-'71, United States Ambassador to Norway, will speak on "The Land of the Vikings," in Brattle Hall this afternoon at 4.45 o'clock...
...Lecture by. H. H. D. Peirce ex-'71 on "The Land of the Vikings," in Brattle Hall...
...began by showing that the negro race has advantages as well as disadvantages. Only forty-seven years old, it is a young race with all its future before rather than behind it. Ambitious and eager to learn, the negro people are passing through the new experience of owning land, school-houses, and churches, and even of opening banks and stores. They have the remarkable faculty of adapting themselves more quickly than most races to the habits and customs of the community in which they live, and of absorbing rapidly the ideas of christian civilization. In language, taste for food, matters...
...scores of other institutions are examples of the progress the negro has made. In 1881, Dr. Washington started Tuskegee Institute in an old school-house in Alabama with only one teacher and thirty students. It now includes over 1300 students both men and women, 176 instructors, 3000 acres of land, and about 100 buildings, erected almost entirely by the students. These physical forces are not an end but a means for a great purpose. The negro masses had a consuming ambition for education, but along with this was a feeling that once educated it would be disgraceful to do manual...