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...about as much as Mr. Rosenwald and the whites combined. Of course it must be borne in mind that the Negroes' contribution is not entirely in cash, but computed also on the basis of labor and material put into the schoolhouses, and often Negroes who are good collectors obtain some of the funds from whites in the neighborhood...
...rise of the Labor movement in England, in contrast to its absence in America, is due to the reversed conditions that obtain in the British Isles. Politics absorb most of the leaders, having great industries to shift for themselves. The coal-mining industry, that is one of the largest in England has been almost totally paralyzed by the rise in the development of water power and its use in manufacturing. The poverty in some of the coal districts is terrifying and almost unbelievable. In the southern part of Wales people are living on crusts of bread, amid conditions of filth...
Meantime it is interesting to notice that the Sun is querying our greatest universities in advance to know if any player who may obtain a place in the Sun's 1926 team will be allowed to come to New York for the proposed dinner. If before the issuing of any invitations the Sun may know that it would be useless to address invitations to certain institutions, the paper might still give its dinner, but its choice of an All-American team might seem some what disproportionate. Anyhow we hope the colleges themselves will reject these overtures as violations...
...order to obtain the greatest diversity of opinion in the awarding of the bequests, the Harvard Corporation appoints each year a committee to advise it in making a selection among the investigations proposed and in the allotment of the incomes to conduct them...
...protested that a much smaller percentage of the preachers were Buchmanites, that Buchmanism did not characterize the revival. The revival was planned and directed by one W. Cleveland Hicks, graduate of Trinity College, no Buchmanite. By definition, Buchmanism, which consists in private conferences between gospeler and proselyte, did not obtain at Waterbury, where the work was primarily with crowds at street corners, in factories, schools, shops. According to its promoters, the Waterbury revival was "adventurous religion . . . flaming youth . . . united impact ... a synthesis between the hand-to-mouth methods of the Salvation Army and the more reasoned approach of the Christian...