Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grant Park, just north of the institute, around a huge clownlike dummy in rompers, silk stockings and a Victorian, plumed hat. Young Daniel Catton Rich, director of the institute, ran over to plead with them to disperse, and so did popular Dean Norman Rice. But suddenly four ringleaders in black hoods hoisted the effigy to their shoulders, shouted "Let's go!" About half the crowd followed, chanting lugubriously, carrying signs which read: NERVOUS HYSTERIA IS NOT ART CRITICISM; SEND E. JEWETT TO ART SCHOOL; JEWETT IS 70 YEARS BEHIND THE TIMES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE, MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE, MEDIEVAL ART CRITICISM...
Fortnight ago little Black Mountain College, in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, finished its sixth year and laid plans for its seventh. Orthodox educators were surprised at its persistence. Black Mountain resembles no other college in the U. S. It requires no attendance at classes, grants no degrees, has no president, no fraternities, no football team. Thus unencumbered by the machinery of curricular and extracurricular activities, it devotes itself to art, music, dramatics, philosophy and what it calls "community living." Last week, the better to house "community living," the college announced plans for new buildings such...
...Black Mountain College was founded by nine teachers and 19 students, most of whom had been kicked out of or resigned from Florida's Rollins College (TIME, Sept. 4, 1933)-Most notable was Classics Professor John Andrews Rice, brother-in-law of Swarthmore's President Frank Aydelotte and a nephew of South Carolina's U. S. Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith (see p. 15). John Rice was fired by Rollins' President Hamilton Holt because he had cried loudly that Rollins, for all its progressive claims, was full of bunk. To start a bunkless college, Rice...
...Today Black Mountain College has some 20 teachers, 50 students,*is still poor and happy. Students pay an over-all fee of $300 to $1,200 a year, according to their means (a few pay nothing), are expected to share in the work, whatever they pay. For its new buildings, Black Mountain bought a site at Lake Eden, few miles from its present quarters. It hopes to get gifts to start its project and have at least one building to move into by the fall...
...Each Black Mountain student, with faculty advice, lays out his own course, takes comprehensive examinations when he thinks he is ready to go from the junior to the senior division, where he specializes in one field. To graduate (usually, but not necessarily, after four years), he must pass an examination, given by a professor from another college, in his major field. Although they need not go to classes, most students do. Classes are informal, are often held outdoors. Boys and girls wear shorts or jeans, smoke, call their teachers by their first names...