. The men of the mountains; the story of the southern mountaineer and his kin of the Piedmont; with an account of some of the agencies of progress among them. e stand in the Gap, and watch, far over thehills, the receding form of a romantic isolation, andnearer at hand, in the valley, the clamoring, pulsingforces of a new era, our eyes stray up the slope untilthey rest upon the form of a mediator between thesepld and these new forces. The school has entered the The Heart of Appalachia 93 Gap/ It stands between the startled, bewildered moun-tain child and the life that is either to serve him or
. The men of the mountains; the story of the southern mountaineer and his kin of the Piedmont; with an account of some of the agencies of progress among them. e stand in the Gap, and watch, far over thehills, the receding form of a romantic isolation, andnearer at hand, in the valley, the clamoring, pulsingforces of a new era, our eyes stray up the slope untilthey rest upon the form of a mediator between thesepld and these new forces. The school has entered the The Heart of Appalachia 93 Gap/ It stands between the startled, bewildered moun-tain child and the life that is either to serve him or tocrush him. The school is the hope of the it he may be adjusted to this more strenuouslife that threatens to undo him. By it his strong, sim-ple, enduring powers may be shaped to a serviceunequaled among Americas workmen. With deepest in-terest, then, may we turn to a study of the forces thathave been at work for this preparation and directionof the men of the mountains. >The representative ot the school at Cumberland Gap is LincolnMemorial University, founded by Gen. O. O. Howard, and now presidedover by Dr. George A.
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