CLASS in Classic Quotes

1  To this class the problem seemed especially hard.

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

2  Neither were all the class designated as carpetbaggers dishonourable men.

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

3  School would always be begun before I reached it, and sometimes my class had recited.

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

4  Among a large class there seemed to be a dependence upon the Government for every conceivable thing.

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

5  At the beginning of this school there were about twelve strong, earnest men and women who entered the class.

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

6  In addition to this, she worked among the older people in and near Tuskegee, and taught a Sunday school class in the town.

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

7  Others had secured minor government positions, and still another large class was there in the hope of securing Federal positions.

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

8  The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the Federal officials to create one for them.

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

9  I was determined, if possible, to make such a record in my class as would cause me to be placed on the "honour roll" of Commencement speakers.

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

10  As soon as possible after reaching the grounds of the Hampton Institute, I presented myself before the head teacher for an assignment to a class.

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

11  The history of the world fails to show a higher, purer, and more unselfish class of men and women than those who found their way into those Negro schools.

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

12  Many of them, however, said that, as they could remain only for two or three months, they wanted to enter a high class and get a diploma the first year if possible.

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

13  I found that while among them there was a large element of substantial, worthy citizens, there was also a superficiality about the life of a large class that greatly alarmed me.

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

14  While the coloured people were ignorant, they had not, as a rule, degraded and weakened their bodies by vices such as are common to the lower class of people in the large cities.

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

15  With the teachers came some of their former pupils, and when they were examined it was amusing to note that in several cases the pupil entered a higher class than did his former teacher.

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

16  I remember there came into our neighbourhood one of this class, who was in search of a school to teach, and the question arose while he was there as to the shape of the earth and how he could teach the children concerning the subject.

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

17  The first month I spent in finding accommodations for the school, and in travelling through Alabama, examining into the actual life of the people, especially in the court districts, and in getting the school advertised among the class of people that I wanted to have attend it.

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