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...Down the Potomac toward Norfolk, with an account of the Army-Navy football game droning in on her radio, steamed the yacht Mayflower, much used these days. President & Mrs. Coolidge's guests this time were Senator & Mrs. McNary of Oregon, Senator & Mrs. Oddie of Nevada, Senator & Mrs. Dale of Vermont, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Waterman Stearns (house guests) and Mr. & Mrs. E. T. Clark (he used to be the Coolidge private secretary...
Atlanta, Ga. Asheville, N. C. Biloxi, Miss. Brunswick, Ga. Charleston, S. C. Chattanooga, Tenn. Cleveland, Ohio Corpus Christi, Tex. Dallas, Tex. Detroit, Mich. Erie, Pa. Greensboro, Lakeland, Fla. Los Angeles, Calif. New Orleans, La. Norfolk, Portsmouth...
Punished. At Hampton Normal Institute, large Negro training school at Norfolk, Va., President James E. Gregg last week decided to expel four students (known as the "Big Four"), suspended 56 for the rest of the academic year, and placed about 150 on probation. They were the most recalcitrant of the 400 young men & women who the week before had quit the institute when lights in the cinema hall were kept bright to discourage improper practices. (TIME...
...Hampton Normal Institute, large Negro school at Norfolk, Va., faculty & student body took issue. Four hundred students went on strike, refused to atend classes or sing at church service. The faculty countered by suspending classes. Thereupon, 900 of the 1,200 students entrained for home. The striking students may return to Hampton provided they apply in writing, pledging loyalty & obedience. Otherwise they are automatically ousted. The controversy resulted from the students protesting by strike against the illumination of Assembly Hall during cinema performances. The illumination was insisted upon by the faculty because, darkened, the room had been used...
Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke and Earl and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Norfolk, Baron Maltravers, Baron FitzAlan, Baron Clun, Baron Oswaldestre, 19-year-old scion of one of England's oldest families, Roman Catholic, last week "flunked" responsions-college entrance examination at Oxford. The young Duke has never been to school, but has been "educated" privately by a tutor. It may have been argued that his aristocratic lineage entitled him to many privileges, but Oxford has long been noted for its democratic independence. Magdalen College refused...