Word: paule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carnegie's size. Hayes is slight, frail-appearing. He sings spirituals artfully, in a high voice that is often reedy. The Negro who sang last week in Manhattan was as tall as Basso Feodor Chaliapin and brawnier. His voice was big and mellow. He sang simply. He was Paul Robeson, athlete-actor-baritone. Last week's was his first U. S. appearance after a three-year absence in Europe...
...Paul Robeson is distinctly a Northern Negro. The youngest son of a school-teaching mother and a Methodist minister who had worked his way through Lincoln University, he was educated first in the public schools of Princeton, N. J. His school record won him a scholarship at nearby Rutgers College (New Brunswick, N. J.). At Rutgers an average of over 90% in all his studies won him a Phi Beta Kappa key in his junior year. He was considered Rutgers' best debater. He won his R in four sports (football, baseball, basketball, track). The late Walter Camp called...
...Paul Robeson meant to be a lawyer. He took a two-year course at Columbia University, earned his degree. During that period, however, he performed in a Y. M. C. A. play which Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill happened to attend. So enthusiastic was O'Neill that he went backstage and begged Robeson to act in Emperor Jones. His law course finished, Robeson consented, and made a name as a big actor in Emperor Jones, All God's Chillun, Black...
...Spalding, Milton Academy; Samuel Spencer, Milton Academy; R. P. Stebbins, Newton High School; W. H. Stein, Exeter; R. B. Stever, Exeter; D. M. Sullivan, Boston Latin School; J. O. Sumner, Jr., Private Tutors; Myer Swartz, Boston Latin School; Harry Tarutz, Boston Latin School; G. Q. Thorndike, Saint Paul's School; T. McC. Torrey, Middlesex School; A. T. Torrielli, Boston Latin School; R. W. Vilter, Hughes High School; H. W. Wadleigh, Exeter; G. B. Walker, Northwood School...
...Walker, Saint Paul's School; R. J. Walsh, Jr., Andover; H. B. Washburn, Jr., Groton School; J. D. Wassersug, Boston Latin School; D. G. Way, Thayer Academy; A. W. Weil, Jr., Choate School; David Weld, Milton Academy; G. G. Wells, Exeter; R. C. Wells, Exeter; Taggart Whipple, Noble and Greenough School; J. M. Wilfand, Boston Latin School; Max Wilfand, Boston Latin School; A. F. Wilson, Jr., Exeter; B. A. Winter, Shaw High School; E. B. Wood, Santa Barbara School; Edward Yeomans, Jr., Thacher School; Hamilton Young, Newton Country Day School