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...seldom that I give expression to a criticism of matter appearing in the press, but the absolute lack of necessity of the reference which you made to Greensboro in your article on Winston-Salem, p. 18, TIME, Aug. 23, impels...
...struck, on your first visit to Winston-Salem, by the fact that it is off the main railroad line, up in the hills. You have to change trains at Greensboro, a second-rate town (considering its advantages) where, dazzling and unexpected above an ill-kempt street lined with shabby buildings, a single white skyscraper (the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., largest in the South, assets, $31,000,000) towers up, its façade handsome with carving, its superior ground-floor shops the heralds of Greensboro's delayed awakening...
...branch line of railroad takes you from the shabby Greensboro station an hour or two back through the hills to a smart, new station. Like as not the Travelers Aid attendant will invite you to use her telephone instead of the pay-booth. She is Winston-Salem's first hostess and sets the pace for hospitality. Climbing a steep green hill you arrive in the city's centre, where a huge factory, trim and modernized, notifies you at once of the city's presiding power: REYNOLDS...
Prizes. A committee of women teachers examined the 438 publications submitted and awarded silver loving cups-in various classes-to Central High School, Minneapolis; North High School. Minneapolis; Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, N. J.; Central High School, Greensboro, N. C. (two prizes-for newspaper, for magazines) ; Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio; Junior High School No. 2, Trenton, N. J.; Nashua Junior High School, Parkersburg, W. Va.; Philadelphia Normal School; Junior Teachers' College, St. Cloud, Minn...