Garden City New York

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

1911

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INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1910, 1911, DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.Learning from Men and Things[3]
II.Building a School Around a Problem[21]
III.Some Exceptional Men, and What I Have Learned from Them[51]
IV.My Experience with Reporters and Newspapers[81]
V.The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob[102]
VI.A Commencement Oration on Cabbages[128]
VII.Colonel Roosevelt and What I Have Learned from Him[158]
VIII.My Educational Campaigns Through the South and What They Taught Me[183]
IX.What I Have Learned from Black Men[205]
X.Meeting High and Low in Europe[239]
XI.What I Learned About Education in Denmark[262]
XII.The Mistakes and the Future of Negro Education[287]