Word: negros
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Prof. Greener, of Washington, who was not invited to the Washington alumni dinner, is distinguished as the first Negro who ever received a degree from Harvard...
Vassar and Wellesley both lay claim to the young lady who amended Shakespeare thus: "Be not a negro of your speech...
...negro problem is the other great problem. There are three classes of negroes: 1 - The educated and ambitious; 2 - The inhabitants of the upland States, who are intelligent and industrious; 3 - Those in the lowland States, like Mississippi, who are but three generations removed from a savage ancestry, and are half savage themselves. The upland negroes are as far superior to the negroes of the lowlands or "black belt" as we are to our barbarous Anglo-Saxon ancestors. Among the former the negro problem is solving itself. Amalgamation is not, as yet, an important factor in the problem...
...this country from Liberia, since which time the interest in the educational advancement of that country has greatly increased throughout America. Dr. Blyden is the president of Liberia College, is a fluent linguist (speaking no less than seven languages), and has done more to advance the prosperity of the negro race than many a statesman far more famed. The college curriculum is much more advanced than might be supposed, embracing a thorough course in classical Greek, with practice in the use of the modern tongue; the study of Latin through Caesar, Tacitus, Virgil and Livy; mathematics through conic sections, with...
...harmony. Beneath the window hangs a portrait of Captain Robert Shaw, and all about the hall stand busts, many of which represent men whose names are connected with that crimson page of our history of which John Lafarge's window is a passionate reflection. A large band of negro servitors keep the building in order, and wait upon the tables at meal-time. They go cheerfully about their work, whistling and humming their own soft melodies. One wonders if they are conscious of the significance of the scarlet stain which at noontide the sunlight casts across the floor at their...