Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Donald Browne, rector of St. James Church, South Groveland, will deliver an address upon "A Boy's Summer Camp at Pack Monadnock Mountain" this evening at 7 o'clock in the Noble Room of Phillips Brooks House, under the auspices of the St. Paul's Society...
...Goodell Frost, D.D., Ph.D., president of Berea College, Kentucky, spoke last night in the Fogg Lecture Room under the auspices of the Social Service Committee on "A Mountain College on the Fighting Line...
Dean Ames of the Law School introduced the speaker, who began by showing that when free speech and free learning were prohibited in the South as a whole, they were preserved in the mountain districts of Eastern Kentucky by the abolitionist pioneers. Berea College was founded during the Civil War and thirty-nine years ago negroes were admitted. Its first work was to assist the process of reconstruction and to start the negro in his new life...
...region in which the work of Berea is going on consists of twenty counties in the mountain regions of eight states. It is populated by three millions of people, isolated from civilization of any kind and with little or no education. The only ways of transportation are through the river beds, and boys and girls who go to the college must leave their homes and take long pilgrimages in search of education. Help is needed more in this region than in any other of its size in this country...
...SOCIAL SERVICE COMMITTEE. "A Mountain College on the Firing Line"--Berea College, Kentucky. President Wm. Goodell Frost. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...