We have been struggling along for several hundred years with our system of education ... the question of what we should do for the... Negro and the Indian races in their almost helpless condition as we found them after the [Civil] War. The necessity for helping this condition led [General Armstrong, founder of the institution], to undertake this system of education, that the manual dexterity, united with the teaching of life as it was to be ... not alone for Negroes and Indians, but for the white people throughout this land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[President Ellen Wood Hall is] short, with short gray hair that is not in the least bit attractive, and wears godawful clothes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd,... When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:... Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can... be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the... classroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
WHEREAS no provisions have, as yet, been made by the World's Columbian Exposition Commission for securing exhibits from the colore...d women of this country, or the giving of representation to them in such Fair, and WHEREAS under the present arrangement and classification of exhibits, it would be impossible for visitors to the Exposition to know and distinguish the exhibits and handiwork of the colored women from those of the Anglo- Saxons, and because of this the honor, fame and credit for all meritorious exhibits, though made by our race, would not duly be given us ... RESOLVED that for the purpose of demonstrating the progress of the colored women since emancipation and of showing to those who are yet doubters, and there are many, that the colored women ... are making rapid strides in art, science and manufacturing, and of furnishing to all information as to ... what the race has done, is doing and might do, in every department of life, that we, the colored women of Chicago request the Columbian Commission to establish an office for a colored woman whose duty it shall be to collect exhibits from the colored women of America ... [ellipses in source]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today, San Francisco has experienced a double tragedy of incredible proportions. As acting mayor, I order an immediate state of mo...urning in our city. The city and county of San Francisco must and will pull itself together at this time. We will carry on as best as we possibly can.... I think we all have to share the same sense of shame and the same sense of outrage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of bot...h races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »