Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Draper, Chairman, Miss Ruth Chamberlin; J. O. Blckford, Miss Deborah Tappan; H. Wendt, Miss Phyllis Fanning; G. L. Russell, Jr., Miss Olive Johnson; R. J. Dunkle, Jr., Miss Ruth Litchfield; J. B. Durant, Miss Ruth Holmes; Richard Donham, Miss Martha Benedict; J. H. Burrage, Miss Elizabeth Shepard...
...Memorial Hall Dr. Ham, A, J, S Memorial Hall Mr. Chamberlin, C, F Memorial Hall Mr. Bigelow, P, X New Lect. Hall Mr. de Chazeau, I, T, Y New Lect. Hall Mr. Kreps, H, L, M, R New Lect. Hall Mr. Taylor, O, W, Z New Lect. Hall Mr. Johnson, E, K, V Harvard 5 Mr. White, D, G, U Harvard 6 Economics 4b Ach-Corey Sever 24 Creswell-Harnich Sever 29 Harris-Jasper Sever 31 Johnson-Levis Sever 32 Locke-Rose Sever 35 Rote-Wyler Sever 36 English 39 Sever 11 Fine Arts 1a Fogg Lect. Rm. Fine Arts...
...TROMBONES-James Weldon Johnson-Viking Press...
...then trumpeting brass-throated, with a belt-hitch, handslap, foot-stamp and double shuffle, timed to the march of the saints of the Lord on that terrible Judgment Day. . . . The oldtime Negro inspirational preachers, what were they but God's slide trombones?* So conceives James Weldon Johnson, poet and social worker among his fellow Negroes. He has let his memory doze back for the main themes of sermons he heard as a little boy. His intellectual faculty has played over the themes, spun them into folk poems without specious aid of dialect or ungrammatical rhetoric...
...Author. James Weldon Johnson is a 55-year-old product of Jacksonville, Fla. He attended Atlanta, Columbia and Howard Universities, taught school a while, then entered the musical comedy business in Manhattan. He served for six years as a U. S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua. He became executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For his richly racial poetry, plus his diplomacy and public service, he was given the 1925 Spingarn Medal (for "noblest achievement...