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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...range is too limited to offset it. But the lay audience, including such famed white Negrophiles as Novelists Fannie Hurst and Carl Van Vechten, received him ecstatically, applauded tremendously after ''Water Boy,'' "I'm Goin' to Tell God all my Troubles" and "Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho." Robeson will remain in the U. S. for two months, will sing at Rutgers College. New Brunswick, N. J.; at Toronto. Pittsburgh. Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Wis., Columbus, Ohio. In January he returns to London to play the Moor in Shakespeare's Othello. If successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Robeson's Return | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Continue to pay janitors' salaries to college professors and you must be prepared to expect your children to receive teaching upon a level which will fit them to be janitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Janitors' Salaries | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...result there are people who feel that there is a danger that the emphasis may fall in the near future upon the scholarship of literature, and upon bibliography. There is a special need at the moment for a man with a wide interest for literature, and Professor Lowes will fit this need admirably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. W. GARROD COMMENDS APPOINTMENT OF LOWES | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

Instead of forcing the men in the course to distribute their work over a diverse selection of required books, everyone is to be allowed to select a pertinent subject in a field of wide range and cover it in the manner which he may see fit. In addition, it will not be necessary to spend half of the reading period preparing a written report to assure the instructor that the work has been done. If this plan is carried out as it has been set forth, a few more of the bonds of preparatory school methods will take another step...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE | 10/30/1929 | See Source »

...better off as a republic than with her present eight-year-old King Mihai and three Regents. White-lipped and hard-eyed, Prime Minister Juliu Maniu sought Prince Nicholas, found him closeted with the other Regents, Justice Saratzeanu and Patriarch Miron Cristea. "If Your Royal Highness does not see fit to repudiate this interview," the Prime Minister was reported to have said, "I must place my resignation in the Regency's hands." Prince Nicholas is an amiable, weak-chinned youth, a reputed follower of the religious doctrines of Frank N. D. Buchman, famed for objectionable proselyting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Second Dynasty? | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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