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...protest against the expulsion of Ishmael P. Flory from Fisk University in Nashville. Tennesse, the Harvard Chapter of the N. S. L. sent the following telegram last night...
...them [the Robber Barons] without anger, to paint them as no more 'wicked' than they or their contemporaries actually were, though we are aware now of living in another moral climate and in the midst of a new generation. . . ." When the Civil War began "Jay Gould. Jim Fisk, J. P. Morgan, Philip Armour, Andrew Carnegie, James Hill and John Rockefeller were all in their early 20's; Collis Huntington and Leland Stanford were over 30; while Jay Cooke was not yet 40." Old enough to go to war, they were also too canny. They wanted...
...special investigator Dr. Cameron St. Clair Guild (pronounced Gould), a Nova Scotian who has become expert on Southern U. S. public health deficiencies. The Rosenwald Fund, builder of schools for rural Negroes, is paying for tuberculosis control among the Race. One able Negro, Sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson of Fisk University, belongs to the committee of prevention...
...their early tours the Jubilee Singers earned $150,000 with which Jubilee Hall was built to replace the Union barracks. As the singers went on advertising the University, Fisk equipment grew until the first stack of spelling books and New Testaments, bought by selling for old iron the rusty handcuffs from Nashville's slavepens, became a legend. Now there are 25 well-equipped campus buildings at Fisk (not counting the nearby grocery store where students go to eat fried fish). Academically it has Class A rating...
...From Cincinnati the Fisk Choir's tour takes it to Cleveland, Pittsfield, Mass., Hartford, Providence, New Haven, Boston, Worcester, Manhattan, Syracuse, Akron...