Word: hampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came to the U. S. in 1927 because a Scottish pedagog told him it was cheap and had good Negro preparatory schools. His greatest handicap at Virginia's Hampton Institute (for Negroes) was his ignorance of English. Baffled by Bantu, Hampton professors could not help him much. But when he departed after four years a classmate said, "A noble person goes on his way, conscious of his nobility...
Such educators had their eyes, last week on Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., where old Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland seemed about to give the Chicago plan a new twist. Next autumn, he announced, the last two years of the college will be cut adrift from the first two, moored to a graduate school under a single dean. The first two years could scarcely become anything but a junior college...
...Having found nothing to write that would give some insight into the recent Greek rebellion, you come out with a biased biography of a traitor whose latest idol is the Handsome Adolf and who imitated him with a Putsch. . . . S. D. Vinieratos Hampton...
...Well, honey," says the man. "I guess we'll have to go back to Hampton Falls...
...Hampton Falls," says the girl, and begin...