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Several U. S. colleges including Ohio's Oberlin held miniature national political conventions last spring. Last week Oberlin's President Ernest Hatch Wilkins called on his students to follow through. "You were playing a game then," he said. "For the rest of your lives play the reality." He promised time off on Election Day (Nov. 8) for all who are eligible to vote, free transportation for those who ballot in Cleveland...
Thus in Cleveland last week began the first performance of Tom-Tom, a Negro folk opera by Shirley Graham, graduate of Howard University, postgraduate student at Oberlin. Composer Graham, 25, daughter of a Negro missionary, had keyed her music to the primitive chants, the spirituals and the modern jazz rhythms of her race. Tom-Tom's costumes, shields and tattoo marks had been designed by 19 Cleveland Negro artists. From London had come deep-voiced Jules Bledsoe, original "Ol' Man River" singer in Show Boat, to sing the part of the Voodoo Man. On a windy, cloudy night...
...Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio...
...Athens, Greece; Forris Jewett Moore Scholarship: R. G. Kennelly, Cambridge, Mass.; James Mills Peirce Scholarship: D. H. Ballou, Chester, Vermont; Edward Russell Scholarship: C. P. Adams, Huntington, Oregon; Ralph Sanger Scholarships: A. F. Bixby, Lakewood, Ohio; N. F. Conant, Wakefield, Mass.; D. J. Grout, Melrose, Mass.; T. B. Thomas, Oberlin, Ohio; L. A. Walford, Cambridge, Mass.; James Savage Scholarship: B. A. Herman, Somerville, Mass...
...Orleans, La.; D. W. Meiklejohn, Madison, Wis.; Brooks Otis Richmond, Indiana; D. H. Popper, White Plains, N. Y.; H. A. Smith, North Adams, Mass.; C. W. Swonger, Durham, N. H.; F. B. Williams, Jr., Middletown N. Y.; Jacob Canter, Newton, Mass.; V. I. Cheadle, Oxford, Ohio; R. A. Clapp Oberlin, Ohio; J. S. Edwards, Chapel Hill, N. C.; J. W. Fesler, II, Minneapolis, Minn.; G. T. Foust, Sawanee, Tenn.; G. A. Lee, Crawfordsville, Ind.; R. E. Luce, Princeton, N. J.; H. N. Maxwell Zanesville, Ohio; R. H. Morgan, Haverford, Pa.; A. E. Pitcher, Cleveland Ohio; H. A. Potter, Jr., Ithaca...