. Berea Quarterly. men who span and wove in Connecticutand Massachusetts a hundred years ago. The New Eng-land weaver was by no means so isolated. The stage-coach, the regularly established church services each weekand mid-week, the town meeting and district school keptup an intellectual activity and a sense of progress unknownto the belated mountaineer. Now it is the province of Berea College to supply thesegreat elements, to train the sons and daughters of themountains, to instil higher ideals of politics than thosewhich naturally prevail under the feudalistic traditions ofthe South, to stre
. Berea Quarterly. men who span and wove in Connecticutand Massachusetts a hundred years ago. The New Eng-land weaver was by no means so isolated. The stage-coach, the regularly established church services each weekand mid-week, the town meeting and district school keptup an intellectual activity and a sense of progress unknownto the belated mountaineer. Now it is the province of Berea College to supply thesegreat elements, to train the sons and daughters of themountains, to instil higher ideals of politics than thosewhich naturally prevail under the feudalistic traditions ofthe South, to strengthen the best religious life, and throughour Extension service to sow the seeds of thought, enter-prise and progress. All this is work unusual for this generation, requiringthought, adaptation and understanding and we have already such large results attained that we canconfidently predict that the history of many a New Englandfireside is to be repeated in the hill country of the NOTES ON NORTH CAROLINA. The accompanying picture showing a family of NorthCarohna people which has moved to Berea will certainlycommend the mountain people of that state to our favorableconsideration. One group of fifty North Carolina studentsarrived in Berea at the opening of this fall term. Amongthe mountain states of the South, North Carolina standsconspicuous as containing the highest mountains and mostfamous health and pleasure resorts. The sociological con-ditions growing out of isolation are substantially alikethroughout all Appalachian America, but there are specialconditions growing out of climate and out of the originalblood and traditions of the first settlers. It seems probablethat Kentucky and Tennessee contain more rural Englishstock, and that the Scotch-Irish is a larger element in thestates farther south. A lady from Charleston, South Carolina, who has beenfor many years conversant with the North Carolina moun-tains, tells us that the British consul
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