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TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Jim Fisk was a tin peddler from Pownal, Vt. Not he, but Daniel Drew, sold watered stock at the Bull's Head Tavern. Selling watered live stock by weight was an old trick when Mesopotamian cowboys used to trade, in the wine-rooms, at Ur of the Chaldees. It is much if you do not mix up Daniel Drew* with John Drew.† Jim Fisk&** with John Fiske.†† NEWELL MARTIN...
...Fisk, Chairman, Miss Lucille Norton; G. C. Hartley, Miss Elizabeth Hill; Clark Hodder, Miss Jean Thompson; R. D. Milliken, Miss Julia Hoyt; A. M. Hollander, Miss Margaret Battelle...
What situation? Lawyer Cravath had been informed. He knew how certain liberal alumni had condemned the "disciplinarianism", the "Puritanism" of Dr. F. A. McKenzie, Fisk's President (TIME, Feb. 9). He had heard, even, of the more startling events which had taken place in the last Fiskal week. Fisk students, either encouraged to action by the sympathy of the alumni, or finding that their wrongs had become intolerable, held a mass meeting, indulged in declamations, shouts,'until interrupted by the police. Five leaders were led off, protesting, to the city jail of Nashville, there lodged. Next...
...himself and were merely the names of men who had protested to the Board of Trustees in June against his policies. When, on the morning after the trial, students and faculty assembled for chapel service, a spokesman addressed Dr. McKenzie, declared that he must reinstate the five, or all Fisk students would "strike". Dr. McKenzie refused to budge from his decision. A solemn ballot was taken ; a large percentage of the undergraduates voted to withdraw from the Uni- versity. Some hurried to pack their trunks; some loitered, talking excitedly, in the streets of Nashville; some composed a telegram to Lawyer...
...These figures repreesnted the number of full-time regular students. † Paul D. Cravath's father, Rev. Erastus M. Cravath, was founder and first President of Fisk. (TIME...