Word: negro
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been found in pawn shops. The guilty persons have not yet been apprehended, but it is such cases that are never lost sight of by Yard police until the blame is fin ally and irrevocably fixed. Another case against which there is a general warning is that of a negro who is peddling cigars about the rooms. The cigars, it turns out, are consistently smuggled. The peddler of the articles will be taken into custody as soon as his whereabouts is reported and he is caught in the act. It is on such pretences as this that men enter...
Booker T. Washington has been secured to give a lecture in the Living Room of the Union on Wednesday evening, February 4, at 8 o'clock. The subject has not been definitely announced but will very probably deal with some phase of the negro problem. Mr. Washington who is now principal of the Tuskegee Institute has made a careful study of the intellectual and moral qualities of the American negro, and his standing as an authority on questions pertaining to the education and elevation of the black race is universaly respected. He is the author of several treatises...
Madikane Qandiyane Cele, a Zulu prince of the royal line, gave an interesting talk on the plans and purposes of the Armstrong Institute to be founded in Africa. It is the purpose of this institution to train the negro to apply brain training to the use of his hands...
...Institute. The trouble with many missionaries who have gone to Africa has been that they have had no practical experience in actual work, being only fitted to train the minds of the Africans. By the system which will be employed at the Armstrong Institute, the physical side of the negro will be developed first, leaving the higher mental development to come later...
Several of the most eminent educators and business men of the East have planned gradually to build up in Africa an institute, similar to the Hampton Institute in Virginia, and to put Mr. Cele in charge of it. Their belief is that the way to solve the negro problem is to give the negroes confidence and intelligence through work well done. This committee consists of: President A. Lawrence Lowell '77, President Faunce of Brown; Mr. F. Kelsey of the Yale Corporation and president of the Title Guarantee Trust Company of New York; Dr. Henry B. Frissell, president of the Hampton...