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interested in "The Souls of Black Folk" rather than
in their material progress.

At a dinner in Boston, Washington (who had just
been abroad) maintained that "for the common
peasant in most parts of the continent of Europe
there was less outlook, less hope, and less chance of
personal development, than for the negroes of Ala-
bama."

The Institute work in the mechanical departments
seemed to me more effective than the literary in-
struction. I was especially impressed by the rich
melodies of the Tuskegee choir, never having else-
where heard so fine a rendering of the primitive but
delightful negro "spirituals."

Tuskegee
Institute

Tulane University, a well-endowed institution, has
long maintained a high reputation for scholarship.
Dr. Brandt Van Blarcom Dixon, an old Cornell
friend, is the honored president emeritus of the
neighboring Newcomb College for women, and with
him I was glad to renew acquaintance. At dinner
I met many of the leading people of the city, among
them Miss Grace King, historian of old Louisiana,
a woman of clear mind and attractive personality.

At Tulane

[I should here explain that the Stanford trustees,
in accordance with the custom adopted from the be-
ginning, 1 had now at my request granted me a long-
delayed sabbatical year of absence on half pay. This,
however, I divided, postponing the second half until
August, 1912.]

In the course of the winter of 1911-12 I published
under the title of "War and Waste" 2 a number of

____________________
1 An arrangement by which each professor was entitled to every seventh year,
on half pay, for study, travel, or rest.
2 Doubleday, Page & Co.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor Prophet of Democracy. Volume: 2. Contributors: David Starr Jordan - author. Publisher: World Book. Place of Publication: Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY. Publication Year: 1922. Page Number: 408.
    
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