Word: isaiah
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...Peabody College for Teachers took its fifth president, scholarly Psychologist Sidney Clarence Garrison, 50. All week the two campuses shone with such a collection of academic finery as the South had not seen in decades. From rostra thundered Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds, Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman, U. S. Public Health Service Surgeon General Thomas Parran, American Bar Association's President Arthur T. Vanderbilt, scores of other bigwigs. No mere installation of officers had instigated all this big talk. Pedagogues and laymen had gathered to take stock of Education in the South. Excerpts from...
...their moneys or speculation for profit to be made safe for the stupid and for those overwise in their own conceits- by policing every traveler on that road? Are we to mark the way of the Lord through business laws and ethics according to the specifications of the Prophet Isaiah -so that wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein? Maybe so. But I have not yet had a release to announce that Isaiah's way of the saints is to be staked out through the New York Stock Exchange as a Federal project. . . . Let us patrol well...
Purpose of the present committee, financed by a $50,000 grant from the Hays office and manned by such potent schoolmen as Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman, President Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director Mark May of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, is to break this vicious circle by opening the vaults of Hollywood for school use. Four years ago broad-beamed Educator May and Dean Howard Le Sourd of the Boston University Graduate School set out to experiment in this direction by extracting morally helpful episodes from old feature films. Encouraged...
...when the track of what is now the dinky Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad was laid, Bolivar's rich bottomlands were an uninhabited jungle. The railroad, eager for customers along the route, but fearing that white men would die off under the hot summer sun, decided to try Negroes. Isaiah T. Montgomery, a onetime slave of Jefferson Davis, and his cousin Benjamin T. Green were induced to start a colony. Thus was founded the town of Mound Bayou. Last week every day was carnival in Mound Bayou, for it was celebrating its 50th anniversary as a self-governing 100% Negro...
...rest in five equal annual installments), they have come a long way. Mound Bayou proper now has about 800 inhabitants, the entire colony about 8.000 colonists and 30,000 acres under cultivation, rich lands which for the most part produce premium long-staple cotton. Today the eldest daughter of Isaiah Montgomery, Mrs. Eugene P. Booze, is Republican National Committeewoman for Mississippi. Mayor Benjamin A. Green, a son of Founder Green and the first child born in Mound Bayou, is a graduate of Harvard Law School...