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Booker T. Washington, widely known as an educator and one of the most enlightened of his race, was born in Virginia just before the Civil War. His ambition for knowledge led him to travel five hundred miles "by walking and begging rides both in wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor in the same institution. In 1881 he was called upon to organize and become the head of a negro normal school at Tuskegee, Alabama, for which the State legislature had made an annual appropriation. Opened in July...
President Charles William Eliot '53 will leave New York tomorrow morning for an eight months trip in the East. President Eliot has been invited by the executive committee of the Carnegie Peace Foundation, of which he is a trustee, to travel through the Asiatic countries for the purpose of studying public opinion with regard to international peace. Although Dr. Eliot will speak considerably on matters of educational interest, he regards this trip as an exploration to discover how the vast resources of the Peace Foundation may be used to the best advantage...
...trustees in charge of the Carnegie Peace Fund have announced the real reason for President Eliot's coming trip around the world. President Eliot at the request of the Peace Fund committee is to travel through the various Asiatic countries for the purpose of explaining the organization and aims of the ten million dollar Peace Endowment, and of studying public opinion there upon matters of international concern. He will secure the material for a report which will consider how best the Carnegie Endowment may proceed with the view of promoting the cause of peace among the Asiatic nations...
...Frederick Sheldon Fund. The income of this fund is "to be applied in the discretion of and under rules to be prescribed by the President and Fellows...to the further education of students of promise and standing in the University by providing them with facilities for further education by travel after graduation or by establishing travelling fellowships." By vote of the President and Fellows, the income of the Frederick Sheldon Fund is to be assigned, not in scholarships of fixed amounts, but "on recommendation to the Committee from the various Departments and Schools,...as the Committee shall deem most expedient...
...spoke on "Deputations." The deputation committee fills requests from various organizations in and around Boston for Harvard men to speak read, and entertain in similar ways. Y. M. C. A.'s and boys' clubs want athletes to speak to them; churches and Sunday schools want men to speak on travel, to tell stories, and to read selections. The chances of this sort offer a golden opportunity to College men to learn to stand squarely before an audience and say what they want to say. They are called upon to instruct and amuse, and are often forced to speak extemporaneously...