Yesterday afternoon at the ceremonies in Music Hall incident to the unveiling of the Colonel Robert G. Shaw Memorial, Professor William James delivered the oration; an eye witness of Colonel Shaw's career, he held up this young officer as an example of the truest civic patriotism, as well as the highest military courage.
Booker T. Washington, the principal of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., delivered a stirring address upon the hero who first demonstrated that the colored race could take care of itself.
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Prof. William Cook.