Word: planters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...country districts. The primary problem is therefore that of the negro peasant. This problem is made more acute by the fact that the negro farming population tends to segregate in rather sharply defined areas and thus loses the instruction and stimulus of contact with the more progressive white planter. Education is of great value in relieving this situation...
Edwin Farnsworth Atkins, "Adventurous and successful planter in Cuba, judicious and liberal promoter of applied botany...
...Bourland: The Passing of the Cavalier," a novel by Albert E> Hancock, Ph.D., '97, will be issued during the coming spring by the Macmillan Company. The book deals with the life of the Southern aristocracy, during the reconstruction period which followed the Civil War. The hero, a young Virginia planter of Bourbon stock, enlists in the Confederate army, and after the surrender at Appomattox returns home, still unbeaten in spirit, with the hope of restoring the fortunes of his house. The author, though a northerner always takes the point of view of the southern cavalier, and thus presents a sympathetic...
...received by the Class Secretary concerning the intended occupations of Seniors. These results can not be regarded as final as the replies, which have been coming in since February last, have not all been received. Architecture 6, army 2, banking 22, business 34, chemistry 4, commercial artist 1, coffee planter 1, dentistry 1, engineering 27, forestry 1, farming 2, geology 1, Graduate School or studying 9, insurance 4, Journalism 15, literary work 2, landscape gardening 1, law 72, manufacturing 24, medicine 39, music 1, mining 2, ministry 9, religious work 1, railroading 7, real estate 7, sugar planting 2, teaching...