Word: fisk
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Yale University spent seven and a half million dollars last year to educate 3,112 students. Last week the United Negro College Fund Campaign for only $1,500,000 to be shared among 27 U.S. Negro colleges, got under way at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Keynoter was Fisk University's* white President Thomas Elsa Jones. Heading the drive are John D. Rockefeller Jr., Lord & Taylor's President Walter Hoving, the Chase National Bank's Board Chairman Winthrop Williams Aldrich...
...drive gets its $1,500,000, Fisk University will get $40,000 of it, to provide for operating expenses...
...Located in Nashville, Fisk University is bigger (573 students, 47 on faculty) and better off than most other U.S. Negro colleges, is typical of the best of them. Its chief educational aim: to prepare Negroes to make themselves economically independent. A Fisk specialty: the study of foreign Negro peoples. Fisk's International Student Center may make an important contribution to postwar U.S. relations with Africa and the Caribbean islands. The University's faculty is about half Negro, half white. Fisk is one of the few U.S. colleges whose enrollment went up last year...
...Negroes to visit white schools and vice versa is to tempt them. Novelist Carl Van Vechten (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Peter Whiffle) has done just that with a scheme involving Yale and Fisk Universities...
Last week Fisk was preparing to install a Van Vechten gift, the George Gershwin Memorial Collection of Music and Musical Literature, which may be the South's best musical library. It includes letters (by Gershwin, Puccini, Humperdinck, Gounod, Meyerbeer-but none by Negro musicians), operatic and other scores, U.S. first editions, a vast heap of recordings, bursting scrapbooks of U.S. musical history. All this can hardly fail to seduce white scholars from Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Chapel Hill and Duke Universities...