. Review of reviews and world's work. e diversity of thought, if not of interests,between mountain and lowland complicates thepolitical operations of all parties in a number ofStates. BEREA COLLEGE. The present writer began acquaintance with themountain folk in 1884 by a walk through WestVirginia, which was undertaken for health and geology, but which was soonwholly absorbed in the studyof character and social con-ditions. In 1893 he wascalled to the presidency ofBerea College, in the moun-tains of Kentucky. Thisbrevet college, which isreally a kind of social settle-ment, Cooper Institute, and
. Review of reviews and world's work. e diversity of thought, if not of interests,between mountain and lowland complicates thepolitical operations of all parties in a number ofStates. BEREA COLLEGE. The present writer began acquaintance with themountain folk in 1884 by a walk through WestVirginia, which was undertaken for health and geology, but which was soonwholly absorbed in the studyof character and social con-ditions. In 1893 he wascalled to the presidency ofBerea College, in the moun-tains of Kentucky. Thisbrevet college, which isreally a kind of social settle-ment, Cooper Institute, andextension bureau of civiliza-tion, claims the distinctionof being the discoverer oftlie mountain people. Itsearly foundeis and teacherswere the first to take note ofpeculiar conditions w h i c hmarked off this populationfrom the so-called poorwhites on the one handand the aristocratic firstfamilies on the other. Theearliest and fullest publica-tions relative to this region came from Berea,although its duty in this regard has been too. A BEREA GIRL, WEARING HOMESPUN DRESS AND 308 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^IEIV OF REI^IEIVS.
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