Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Turner, the chaplain, spoke briefly of the work done by the Institute in helping to alleviate the condition of the southern negro. The problem is the four fold one of the church, the schoolhouse, the home and the industrial life. Six millions out of the eight millions of negroes in the South live in the one-room cabin, and Hampton, through its trade school and academic department, is trying to transform the one-room cabin into the intelligent, self-supporting Christian home. Mr. T. B. Williams, a graduate of the Hampton Institute, and also a graduate of Harvard...
...plantation songs in the Living Room of the Union at 7.15 o'clock this evening. In addition to the concert addresses will be made by Mr. T. B. Williams and Mr. Jacob Morgan, both of whom are graduates of Hampton. Mr. Williams is one of the agents of the Southern Education Board, and will speak of the work which is being done in the South by graduates of the Institute. Mr. Morgan is a Navajo Indian and will give a description of life among the Indians...
...petition of the Pierian Sodality, for permission to take a short western and southern trip during the spring recess, was refused...
Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80, now on leave of absence from the University, left Cambridge Saturday for an extended trip through the Southern States. Professor Hart intends to spend several months in the South, primarily with a view of studying the existing economic and political conditions. In June he will go to California, and will deliver a course of historical lectures at the summer school of the University of California...
...Advocate contains, besides the editorials, five stories and a poem. "A Crime in the Barrens, "by R. W. Child '03, is an interesting piece of description, dressing out a very mediocre plot. "The Twentieth Man," by G. C. Lincoln '05, is an account of club politics in a Southern college. The narrative is well told, although the scenes depicted seem slightly unnatural. "Pardners," by L. W., although only a short sketch, is the best written article in the magazine. It is clearly told and full of local color, "Rattles Romance," by "Burre," and "Number-Stoughton," by E. R. Little...