Word: fiske
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such songs are to be found in print. They have been perpetuated chiefly by touring companies of Negro singers. Of these companies the two most famed are those sent out from Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee, Ga., and from Fisk University, in Nashville, Tenn., to raise funds for the support of Negro education at these two places. Fifty years ago the original band of Fisk Jubilee Singers serenaded Queen Victoria. If King George and Queen Mary attend a garden party to be given by Lady Astor, they, too, will be serenaded by Fiskians now abroad on tour...
Many newspaper-readers recalled these facts last week when it was announced that Fisk University had completed the first million-dollar endowment fund ever to be established at a Negro college. The sum was made possible by matching scattered gifts with a conditional offer of $500,000 from the General Education Board of New York. From the Carnegie Corporation, of Manhattan, came $250,000; other contributions came from the John F. Slater fund, of Charlottesville, Va., and the J. C. Penny Foundation, of Manhattan. Individuals contributing: Julius Rosenwald, Cyrus H. McCormick, Harold H. Swift, Mrs. Emmons Elaine, all of Chicago...
...Fisk was founded by Northerners in Nashville in 1866 as a school for emancipated slaves. A disused army barracks first sheltered its classes. General G. B. Fisk then Head of the Freedman's Bureau for Tennessee and adjoining States, took a lively interest in the founding; his friends named the school for him. In 1869, the American Missionary Association (sustained by Congregational churches in the North) took over the ownership-and administration, is still in control. The charter as a university was issued...
Additional gloom in the tire business was occasioned by a renewal of price-cutting. Fisk Rubber commenced it by reducing prices sharply. U. S. Rubber and Firestone Tire have followed suit with cuts of between 10 and 15% in old style high pressure tires and of about 20% in the new balloon tires...
...Hawkes to Prescott Sever 7 Pretzfeld to Whitman Sever 8 Botany 7 Gray, Herb. Celtic 3 Harvard 2 Chemistry 19 Sem. Mus. 1 Economics 7b Aldrich to Krafchinsky Sever 23 Lee to Woodworth Sever 24 Economics 31 Sever 6 English 2 Adams to Crossley Harvard 2 Crowley to Fisk Harvard 3 Frazer to Mulloney Harvard 5 Newton to Zipf Harvard 6 Fine Arts 5f Robinson Hall French 9 Sever 11 German B Emerson D German 1a Dr. Cawley's section 2 Emerson A Dr. Silz's section 3 Emerson F German 2, sects. I, II Emerson J German 3b Sever...