Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in Memphis, Dr. Imes graduated from Union in 1915, served as president of its Alumni Club, holds degrees from Fisk, Columbia and Lincoln Universities. In 17 years at St. James' he has built up a devoted, self-sustaining congregation. He is active in racial affairs, a trustee of the Association for the Advancement of Colored People, of the Department of Race Relations of the Federal Council of Churches...
...shave without soap" or this definition of a suffragette (circa 1906): "One who has ceased to be a lady and not yet be come a gentleman." Of course there are omissions. Francis I's gallant "All is lost save honor" is quoted-and corrected-but Jim Fisk's complacent revision of it, substituting "nothing" for "all," does not appear. Kipling's "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke" is in its proper place (under Cigar, not Woman) but e. e. cummings' acerb switch ("For a bad cigar is a woman...
...annual Fisk Trophy slalom will be held on Suicide Six on Sunday afternoon, and several of the Crimson runners are entered, including Ames, Forner, Winship, and King. Undoubtedly the best skiers from the other competing colleges will enter the race also, and the repeat performance will probably settle any doubts about the merits of the respective contestants, if such doubts are raised because of snow conditions of the day before...
...Fisk's beginning, soon after the Civil War, was in a Federal hospital barracks in Nashville, Tenn. Thither, at the invitation of General Clinton Fisk, trooped Negroes of all ages, to get their schooling. They didn't get much until the school's treasurer, George White (white), formed a chorus, named it the Jubilee Singers, took them on a barnstorming tour of the North. Mr. White sent back $40,000 to buy a campus. The Singers went abroad, sang before Queen Victoria, who requested Steal Away to Jesus. That tour netted $200,000, which bought Jubilee Hall...
...Jubilee Singers, now 100% male, have never sung hotcha, keep their spirituals pure and dignified. But last week in Fisk Memorial Chapel, to the dismay of diehards, Negroes stomped, slapped their thighs, plunk-a-plunked banjos and guitars, sang blues and "sinful songs." Fisk's music director, white, German-descended, Harvard-trained Harold Schmidt, 31, had resolved that "Fisk's celebration should sound of whatever is Negro. The five-day program included such commercially successful performers as guitar-playing Joshua White, work-song singer, and the gospel-swinging Golden Gate Quartet. To show what his university choir could...