Word: south
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Booker T. Washington h:'96 delivered a forcible address in the Living Room of the Union last evening, which clearly illustrated the conditions in the South today and showed the marvelous advance of the negro, as a result of education, since the proclamation of freedom forty years ago. The speaker was introduced by President Eliot, who emphasized the importance of young men getting a clear conception of what Mr. Washington rose from...
...states and eight foreign countries. About 80 buildings are operated at an expense of $200,000, and, except in four cases, all the buildings were erected and completed by the students themselves. Of the 6,000 alumni a large proportion are now engaged in promoting education throughout the South...
...Washington has been principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institution since 1881, and is the leader in the movement for the industrial education of the negro of the South today. He is a well known writer and speaker on racial and educational subjects, two of his best known books being "Up from Slavery" and "The Story of My Life and Work...
...special articles not on football the most generally interesting is that by H. W. Foote '97, on "The Primacy of Harvard." This points out the immediate need of increasing the number of Harvard men from the South and West. At present there is grave danger of Harvard's becoming one of several large "provincial" universities. If it is to retain the place it has hitherto held, a larger proportion of its material must be drawn from parts of the country other than New England. This article is admirably supplemented by an account of the Associated Harvard Clubs, the great Harvard...
...BOTANICAL CLUB. "A Botanical Trip to South America: II. Straits of Magellan." (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Professor Thaxter. Nash Lecture Room...