Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Queen Behind the Throne." It is a short sketch of a wonderful woman, the Princess des Ursins, the Madame de Maintenon of Spain. The writer enters into details which general histories have not space for, and the result is an admirable work. Among other articles presented are "A Southern Planter" and "American Fiction...
...story entitled the "Southern Cross" is a picture of Indian life on the island of Grand Menan. The plot of the story is good; the development, however, lacks true literary feeling. Here and there are delicate touches of description, yet the story as a whole moves too slowly for its subject. The language is diffuse and the treatment shows lack of experience. There are also at times obscurities of description which mar the effect...
...extending Princeton's reputation, and of inducing men to enter here. There has been already formed a New England club, and Ohio Club, a North-Eastern Club, and a club of the men from the Middle States, and a movement is on foot for the organization of a Southern Club. It is thought that these clubs will materially aid Princeton, and increase the number of students as well as be a source of much enjoyment to the members...
...Atlanta are graduates of the university and a large proportion is found in all the cities of Georgia. The Atlanta University deserves support for its stubborn attempt to elevate the colored race and to extinguish the hated race distinction in one of the most advanced and prosperous of the Southern States. It is amalgamating the two races by showing to the oppressors what useful citizens the members of the proscribed race become when properly treated...
...peculiar social and physical conditions in the Southern States must be taken into account in considering the illiteracy there and the best remedy for it. (b) Legislation in regard to education, to be effective, must be local, not national; and it must be supported by public opinion...