Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speakers were two young Negroes, second-year men at Fisk University (Nashville, Tenn.), one of the oldest institutions of higher learning for Negroes in the South. They were walking slowly to their rooms from the final ceremony of a four-day celebration to inaugurate as president of Fisk young Thomas Elsa Jones, last year a graduate student in sociology at Columbia University, chosen by the Fisk trustees, after a long search, to fill the boots of Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, against whose alleged "Jim Crow" methods Fisk students struck last year (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925). To give President Jones...
...Line is the current Harvard Prize Play. Taking the in teresting character of a working hobo, the fascinating theme of wanderlust, Playwright Henry Fisk Carlton scrambles out a play that, seemingly, is bound for nowhere in particular. Slug, a roving farmhand, marries a hired girl. She shrinks from announcing to him the expected advent of Slug Jr., wherefore he, unhampered by consciousness of impending paternal responsibilities, takes to the high road once more. When he returns after seven years, he discovers his daughter (surprise!) and his former wife in the home of another man, a sedentary creature who has taken...
...wheelbase is that of the Ford and Chevrolet, 100 in. The overall height is 5 ft., 8 in. with a low centre of gravity due to an 8% in. axle-clearance and the standard 56 in. tread. Tiny balloon tires, smaller even than Ford balloons, have been furnished by Fisk...
...moderator is the son of onetime Negro slaves; is 58; a graduate of Fisk University and of Yale (Bachelor of Divinity) ; holds "progressive" rather than modernist religious views...