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With the Civil War fading into legend, the ordinary northern U. S. citizen takes a sentimental attitude toward the South. It is the land of sleepy, gentle plantations. There Cotton is King; white men are colonels; lazy colored men lie on their backs and croon "Massa's in de col', col' groun'" up at a beautiful orange moon; and colored mammies are kissing babies & making pancakes. That conception received last week a rude jolt from Dr. Julius Klein, able chief of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. At Memphis, Mr. Klein delivered...
...Perkins Institute, Boston, where he was Helen Keller's contemporary and friend. Casting about for an occupation, he tried music, piano-tuning, chair-caning, but resolved finally upon lecturing and poetry. Recognition was slow. He once received $1.65 for a talk delivered to 13 people. His poem, "How Massa Linkum Came," later a popular favorite, was refused by 17 editors before the Springfield Republican accepted...
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...this evening in Room 7, L. S. S. Mr. R. F. Massa will give a short talk on "Gas Engines." All students in mechanical engineering are urged to be present...
ROBERT F. MASSA, 63 Gorham St. W. G. MORTLAND, 38 Perkins Hall.LEWIS J. BIRD CO., Auctioneers, 32 Bromfield street, Boston, announce that their annual sale of Old English Sporting Prints and Engravings (very rare), Mezzotints, Caricatures, etc., will take place at their salesrooms during the week of Nov. 1. They will then offer the finest collection ever shown in Boston. It will pay students to wait and see this collection before procuring any wall ornaments...