Word: slave
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...began by saying that he disagreed utterly with the ideas of Mr. W. Cameron Forbes '92 in regard to our government in the Philippines. Abraham Lincoln was not a dreamer but a practical man; he stated that all men have equal rights, and so the Filipino is not a slave. A man has only the right to govern himself; when he governs others, therefore, he may only do so with the full consent of the governed. Lincoln stated an undeniable truth when he said, "No man is good enough to govern another without that one's consent." Yet we keep...
...such things. The defective who turns out to be more of a man than was expected figures also in "Jean and the Rabbit-Jules," and in Mr. Barber's "Club-foot Joe." He is as much one of the stock characters of the woods story as the rascally slave of Latin comedy; but three appearances in one week is overworking him, and the reader would sympathize if he struck. Mr. Ashwell writes of a day's fishing in Devon, in which he found sober English trout properly shy of big and gaudy American flies; but the discovery has not chastened...
...being perpetrated against the natives in the Upper Congo region of Africa has been placed in the Union office. To anyone who did not hear Mr. Clark's bloodcurding narrative no wards depict the cuetly and the inhuman tortures by which these wretched beings are compelled to slave for King Leopold of Belglum, which would render practical unattainable the cause to which Mr. Clark is devoting his life work, that the pettion has been started. If enough mon can be induced to sing, it will be forwarded to President Roosevelt, as a formal protest from Harvard against a tyrany...
...home (p. 206), the limerick about the Freshman's quandary at Boston dances (p. 208), the bit about Harvard irreligion (p. 209), make one laugh from natural impulse, and not from college spirit, or friendship with their editors. We wish, however, that Lampy could be persuaded to dismiss the slave and wring the Ibis's neck. It would spare us and him much in point of soliloquies about his menage, which we doubt not sounds as dull in his warn...
After a brief sketch of his life, vividly portraying the difficulties which he had to surmount, from the day when he was a slave boy to the time when he was a slave boy to the time when he graduated from the Hampton Institute, he outlined the growth and progress of the Tuskegee Institute. The institute, he outlined the growth and progress of the Tuskegee institute. The institute began with a membership of one teacher and thirty students. The school-house was a shanty of small dimensions. Now there are 156 teachers and 1500 men and women coming from...