This issue of the Berea Quarterly presents the program of "The Berea College Meeting," held in the D.A.R. Hall, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, February 24, 1915. A copy of the issue is found both in the Papers of William Goodell Frost (Record Group...
This issue of The Berea Quarterly is primarily comprised of the article, "Hostile Legislation Against Berea: A Ruthless Hand Stayed By Appeal to the Constitution," a report of the initial events involved with the Day Law.
Topics include the importance of improved rural school houses, Mountain feuds, some celebrations of the Lincoln Centennial, and "Hardshell" Baptists. (31 pages)
This entire issue is devoted to the Lincoln Birthday meeting at Carnegie Hall, including addresses and letters of support of from various persons. President Frost's 8-page address is the lengthiest. (32 pages)
Topics include a social survey of the Kentucky mountain region, efficiency in school expenditures (Berea specifically), and a Chapel address by President Frost, "The Treasures of Youth." (32 pages)
The main essay in this issue is a reprint from Harper's Magazine (August 1915) entitled "In Shakespeare's America." The essay focuse on the language of the mountain people. Other articles cover Berea's role in helping to develop the mountains....
Topics include Anti-Slavery in Kentucky, the Glee Club's trip of 1896, the experiences of the Fees and others during the Civil War, and Appalachian America. (34 pages)
Topics include Appalachia during the Civil War, an address by Theodore Roosevelt regarding Berea College, and a lengthy solicitation from President Frost. (33 pages)
Topics include Mountain Types, Mountain Homespun (weaving), addresses given by President Frost and others at the Berea meeting at the Old South Church, and a biographical sketch of John G. Fee. (21 pages)
Topics include Peasons Hall, Young Southern Leaders, the family of Vincent and Jane Morris, Illiteray among Kentucky Whites, and Appalachia America (reprint of Frost's article from Encyclopedia Americana). (31 pages)
Articles include a continuation of Faulkner's Visit to Appalachia (Extension Dept.), a report on Census data, Early settlements in Kentucky, Mountain agriculture and an overview of Berea's "Program for Mountain Uplift." (32 pages)
Topics include the Worth of Berea's work (Harvard President Charles Eliot), America's Highlanders, Ruskin's Humble Homes/Fireside Industries, Boone Tavern and a statement from the Trustees. (32 pages)
This issue includes an extended photo of 1,000 Bereans, a reprint from The Outlook and NYT about Berea College work to eradicate "the feud spirit," an essay on how to work with "this fighting stock," one on the first settlers in the Tennessee...
The major article in this issue discusses Kephart's "Our Southern Highlanders." An article by extension worker Elizabeth Holderman concludes the issue. (32 pages)
Topics include an article about the women of the mountains (Mrs. Frost), an exposition by John Smith entitled "A Mountain Type" which tells the story of Berea student Mike Gabbard, and the beginnings of a social survey of the North Carolina...
