Word: slave
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...heatedly, in fact facetiously. By far the longest story, "A Boola Banish Tale," although suggestive of the outline of a comic opera, is very amusing in its ingeniously extravagant setting and in its clever bits of dialogue. The Chghan, with his painted tin poultry, sneezing twice to call his slave, is a successful comic centre for the tale. The story would be improved by a little more reasonableness of action--not reason; far be that from Boola Ban! Even foolishness, however, has its foolish laws, and there is a kind of absurd orderliness in nonsense. In the story "Getting Agnes...
...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...
...Rhainam, Head of the Army, H. W. Nichols '07 Guiko, the Jester, R. M. Poor '06 Captain Knot, U. S. Cruiser Stripes, A. M. Harlow '07 Slave, A. G. Grant '07 Sally, an English girl, B. L. Young '07 Fanchetta, an Arab girl, H. B. Sawyer '06 Blue Wagtail Birds, R. S. Townsend '07 E. J. Fraser-Campbell '06 Murderers, Harem, Guards, Sailors, and Populace...
...lecture, which will be illustrated by stereopticon views, Dr. Zwemer will begin with an account of the geography of Arabia and of the nomad life of its inhabitants. After describing the struggle for supremacy in the Persian Gulf, he will give the history of the slave trade and polygamy, and will conclude with a prophecy of the country's future...
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '14 will lecture on "Reminiscences--Fugitive Slave Days in Boston" tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Prospect Union, 744 Massachusetts avenue. This will be the first of a series of Sunday afternoon lectures...