Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Thomas Elsa Jones of Fisk University (Negro) at Nashville, Tenn., received the following letter last week from a prominent U. S. citizen...
Dear Mr. Jones: I have been a long time in replying to your letter of January 25, asking me to give the commencement address at Fisk University on June 6 of this year...
...responsibilities which are always upon me, I have felt I ought not to accept this invitation. On the other hand, my interest in the colored race and in the problems which it involves is urging me to say yes. Because of the splendid work which you are doing at Fisk University and because under your leadership this institution gives promise of being an instrumentality of widespread service to the whole colored race, I am yielding to my impulses and disregarding my judgment and am going to accept with pleasure your invitation...
Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, famed for Negro philanthropies, recently gave $25,000 to Fisk University...
...clique which included Glenway Wescott (author of The Grandmothers, The Apple of the Eye). In 1922 after winning the Fisk Prize for poetry, she published her verses, Under the Tree, but not until she published a year ago The Time of Man, a novel dealing with the country people of the south, did critics realize her as an important and highly individual expert novice in U. S. letters...