Southern Discomfort

Most students during the Institute's early years were New Englanders, with a smattering from other parts of the country and from overseas. Early documentation reveals the prevailing attitudes on campus against Southerners--white an black--and even against Northerners whose families originally hailed from the South. An article in the student newspaper The Tech (20 October 1887) refers to a region of southern Ohio as "the lazy belt," so named because of "certain characteristics of its inhabitants" who "in past time have wandered westward from the 'Old Dominion'".

Timeline

1900s

Object

Video

Social media

Image

Document

Audio

Collection

Illustrations

Roots and Exponents 1875-1920

Students