Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Another article of interest in the May Atlantic is "The Reconstruction Period: the Ku Klux movement," by William Garrott Brown 91. The history of the whole period of the Reconstruction of the Southern States after the Civil War is, especially in the North, comparatively little known. The "Ku Klux Klan," a secret fraternity organized to oppose the carpet bag politicians and to prevent the dominance of the negroes, was a society unique and curious in its aims and work, and an account of it, as well as of the state of southern politics from which it arose, is full...
...lacrosse team will leave Cambridge this afternoon at 4 o'clock for its southern trip. Two games will be played: a championship game with Pennsylvania, Saturday afternoon, at Philadelphia, and a game with Johns Hopkins, Monday afternoon, at Baltimore. Both of these teams are exceptionally strong, Johns Hopkins having recently defeated Crescent by the score of 3 to 1. The Harvard team is especially strong in team work but weak in throwing and catching long passes...
...Yale nine has played only two games since the close of the Easter trip on April 11. On April 13 Wesleyan was defeated 5 to 0 in a slow and spiritless game. The team showed the results of the southern trip in steadiness and reliability both in the field and at the bat, but there was a lack of life and energy. The feature of the game was the pitching of Garvin, who gave Wesleyan only one hit. After a week of very unsatisfactory attempts at practice, the team defeated Amherst last Saturday by the score...
...team expects to start on its southern trip the third of May. It will play Pennsylvania at Philadelphia on the fourth, and Johns Hopkins at Baltimore on the sixth...
...report by Professor Pickering, showing the need of a large telescope in South America, where the dryness of the atmosphere makes it possible to do the work of a forty-inch telescope with one of twenty inches. The report also showed that the field for astronomical work in the Southern hemisphere is very broad, as comparatively little original work has been done there. Harvard has had an observatory in Peru for fifteen years, and at present it contains twice as much equipment as the observatory at Cambridge...