MISS in Classic Quotes

1  Miss Nathalie Lord, one of the teachers, from Portland, Me.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

2  In the meantime Miss Davidson was devising plans to repay the loan.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

3  Whatever ability I may have as a public speaker I owe in a measure to Miss Lord.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

4  Miss Davidson and I began consulting as to the future of the school from the first.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

5  Miss Davidson closed her school and remained by the bedside of the boy night and day until he recovered.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

6  Miss Davidson was born in Ohio, and received her preparatory education in the public schools of that state.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

7  Miss Davidon's experience in the South showed her that the people needed something more than mere book-learning.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

8  The first gift from any Northern person was received from a New York lady whom Miss Davidson met on the boat that was bringing her North.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX.

9  After we had secured all the help that we could in Tuskegee, Miss Davidson decided to go North for the purpose of securing additional funds.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX.

10  Miss Davidson again began the work of securing in various ways small contributions for the new building from the white and coloured people in and near Tuskegee.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX.

11  They fell into a conversation, and the Northern lady became so much interested in the effort being made at Tuskegee that before they parted Miss Davidson was handed a check for fifty dollars.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX.

12  Miss Mackie was a member of one of the oldest and most cultured families of the North, and yet for two weeks she worked by my side cleaning windows, dusting rooms, putting beds in order, and what not.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

13  For some time before our marriage, and also after it, Miss Davidson kept up the work of securing money in the North and in the South by interesting people by personal visits and through correspondence.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX.

14  Before she went to Framingham, some one suggested to Miss Davidson that, since she was so very light in colour, she might find it more comfortable not to be known as a coloured women in this school in Massachusetts.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

15  Through Mrs. Hemenway's kindness and generosity, Miss Davidson, after graduating at Hampton, received an opportunity to complete a two years' course of training at the Massachusetts State Normal School at Framingham.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

16  Soon after her graduation from the Framingham institution, Miss Davidson came to Tuskegee, bringing into the school many valuable and fresh ideas as to the best methods of teaching, as well as a rare moral character and a life of unselfishness that I think has seldom been equalled.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

17  Of course the coloured people were glad to give anything that they could spare, but I want to add that Miss Davidson did not apply to a single white family, so far as I now remember, that failed to donate something; and in many ways the white families showed their interest in the school.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.