Word: nation
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...gather, he said, to commemorate the resolute and faithful men, who fought and fell in the Civil War to preserve American nationality and American free institutions. They freed the negro slave. His complete emancipation, however, the freedom of his mind and soul as well as his body can be secured only through education. It is the opportunity and the privilege of the nation to grant him this. The vast number of illiterate negroes in the South proves that the nation is not doing this adequately...
...women, educated and trained in negro schools and inspired to help their people. Institutions seeking to contribute to this far reaching service should be established at the centre of each of the greater black belts; and they should as President Eliot has recently suggested, receive the nation's aid. The opportunities for trained negroes to help in the uplifting and bettering of their race are many. But today there is a great dearth of well-trained men and women to do the work...
...train the selected negro youth to these fields of usefulness in developing the race, more colleges and professional schools are needed. Until they are secured and the fetter fall from the minds and hearts and energies of the millions of black Americans, the nation's duty is not done...
...least six courses selected from those offered in History and in Literature. The courses selected must be those not regularly open to Freshmen, and should be so chosen as to come under some general scheme of study of the history and literature either of a period or of a nation...
...affirmative case, showed that the debate was not one of abstract principles but of actual conditions, which were in need of a remedy. The remedy, which the affirmative propose would not only better the conditions in France, but would be a practical and an economical policy for the nation to pursue...