Word: raced
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...encountered in making his way to Hampton Institute, where he secured his education. Following this he told of his resolve to take up work in the black belt of Alabama, and his development of the Tuskegee Institute; and closed with a few evidences of the progress of his race, and an enumeration of the opportunities for useful service that the negro problem offers...
...addition to the above, there are a few concerts for which the dates have not yet been fixed. Among these are Wellesley and Northampton. The date of the crew race with Cornell has been tentatively set as May 26, and it is hoped that it may be arranged to bring the the Cornell Musical Clubs to Boston for a dual concert in Jordan Hall the night preceeding. In general, however, the Clubs will not give so many concerts as in past years, because a full schedule makes too great a demand on the time of the members...
...Washington, widely known as an educator and one of the most enlightened of his race, was born at Hale's Ford, Virginia, just before the Civil War. His ambition for knowledge led him to travel five hundred miles "by walking and begging rides in both wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute, from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor there. Since 1881 he has been head of the negro school at Tuskegee, Alabama. Opened in July of that year, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute became under his administration the foremost exponent of industrial education...
...first new articles will provides for the following events in which no members of the association will be permitted to have more than one team to be form the same member of the association: Relay race, teams of five men, each man to run 150 yards. Relay race, same provisions, 300 yards per man. Relay race, 500 yards per man. Relay race teams of four men each man to run 1,000 yards. Relay race team of four men in relays of 200 yards, 300 yards, 500 yards and 1,000 yards...
...baseball or football substitute classed neither with the first team nor the second, though of more ability than the second team man who wins an "H2nd," receives no recognition; the member of the second four-oared crew, in spite of working down to the eve of the Yale race, receives none--a condition very evidently unfair...