Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board of Overseers yesterday afternoon unanimously decided that negroes should not be excluded from the Freshman Halls by reason of their color. Their decision came in the form of unanimous concurrence with a vote of the President and Fellows of the College (otherwise known as the Corporation) passed on March 26. The vote, which was presented to the Board of Overseers by the President and which received their unanimous approval is as follows...
...Voted that up to the capacity of the Freshman Halls all members of the Freshman Class shall reside and board in the Freshman Halls, except those who are permitted by the Dean of Harvard College to live elsewhere. In the application of this rule men of the white and colored races shall not be compelled to live and eat together, nor shall any man be excluded by reason of his color...
...important points decided by the vote are first that negroes will not be excluded from the Freshman Halls by reason of their color and second that men of the white and colored races will not be compelled to live and eat in the same dormitory if they object to members of the other race...
...which 120 dealers will sell antique objects of art, will be held at Versailles next summer. Proceeds will go toward the repair of palace and grounds, which have been allowed to fall literally into ruin. Joseph Pennell, distinguished etcher, after a successful invasion of the untried field of water color, has turned his talent to picture postcards. In Philadelphia, five-cent postcards by Pennell and Thornton Oakley are being exhibited. The British Society of Architects offers three annual scholarships, valued at ?300 each, open to British subjects under 40. The holder of the first is required to spend six months...
...adventure or going with clothes unsuited to the occasion. To go abroad for even a short business trip, a man should take his dinner clothes, three or four sacque suits, a heavy overcoat for traveling and a light coat to do for mild weather wear in some dark color which may also be worn in the evening. In Europe, a top hat is worn with dinner clothes at night. If a man is going about socially, he needs his dress clothes as well, for in London at this time it is considered bad form to wear anything but dress clothes...