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...home (p. 206), the limerick about the Freshman's quandary at Boston dances (p. 208), the bit about Harvard irreligion (p. 209), make one laugh from natural impulse, and not from college spirit, or friendship with their editors. We wish, however, that Lampy could be persuaded to dismiss the slave and wring the Ibis's neck. It would spare us and him much in point of soliloquies about his menage, which we doubt not sounds as dull in his warn...
After a brief sketch of his life, vividly portraying the difficulties which he had to surmount, from the day when he was a slave boy to the time when he was a slave boy to the time when he graduated from the Hampton Institute, he outlined the growth and progress of the Tuskegee Institute. The institute, he outlined the growth and progress of the Tuskegee institute. The institute began with a membership of one teacher and thirty students. The school-house was a shanty of small dimensions. Now there are 156 teachers and 1500 men and women coming from...
...heatedly, in fact facetiously. By far the longest story, "A Boola Banish Tale," although suggestive of the outline of a comic opera, is very amusing in its ingeniously extravagant setting and in its clever bits of dialogue. The Chghan, with his painted tin poultry, sneezing twice to call his slave, is a successful comic centre for the tale. The story would be improved by a little more reasonableness of action--not reason; far be that from Boola Ban! Even foolishness, however, has its foolish laws, and there is a kind of absurd orderliness in nonsense. In the story "Getting Agnes...
...gather, he said, to commemorate the resolute and faithful men, who fought and fell in the Civil War to preserve American nationality and American free institutions. They freed the negro slave. His complete emancipation, however, the freedom of his mind and soul as well as his body can be secured only through education. It is the opportunity and the privilege of the nation to grant him this. The vast number of illiterate negroes in the South proves that the nation is not doing this adequately...
...Rhainam, Head of the Army, H. W. Nichols '07 Guiko, the Jester, R. M. Poor '06 Captain Knot, U. S. Cruiser Stripes, A. M. Harlow '07 Slave, A. G. Grant '07 Sally, an English girl, B. L. Young '07 Fanchetta, an Arab girl, H. B. Sawyer '06 Blue Wagtail Birds, R. S. Townsend '07 E. J. Fraser-Campbell '06 Murderers, Harem, Guards, Sailors, and Populace...