For Debussy, like Beethoven before him, is a passionate lover of Nature. Music: An Art and a Language Walter Raymond Spalding The following is illustrative of the attitude of the old master towards Debussy.
1878 to 1879 - Booker T. Washington spends the winter studying at the Wayland Seminary in Washington, D.C. 1879 - Booker T. Washington returns to Hampton to work for two years as a night teacher and supervisor of the Kiowa and Cheyenne students Hampton had recently accepted. May 1881 - Booker T. Washington is recommended by his supervisor to head a new school for African Americans to be founded in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Booker eagerly asked for education, but his stepfather gave in only when Booker agreed to work in the mines mornings and evenings to make up for earnings lost while in school. He had known only his first name, but when students responded to roll call with two names, Booker desperately added a famous name, becoming Booker Washington. Learning from his mother that he already had a last name, he became Booker T. Washington. Overhearing talk about an African American college in Hampton, Virginia, Washington longed to attend the school.