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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King George at Buckingham Palace. Now he returns to the U. S. to test his native country. Roland Hayes began his life with the hard labor of the small farm-holding Negroes of the South. His parents owned a small piece of cotton land. The boy and his brother ploughed, chopped cotton, picked cotton. In time he contrived to work his way through Fiske University at Nashville. He had a pleasant tenor voice. He undertook vocal studies. He made a little reputation and began his professional career with a recital at Symphony Hall, Boston...
More than 40,000 drawings by children in all parts of the U. S. were examined in a test of the artistic impulses of children between three and four years of age by Miss Stella McCarty, associate professor of education in Goucher College, Baltimore. At this age, she concluded, children have little or no sense of proportion or perspective...
Commander McCrary of the gigantic new ZR1, U. S. Navy, about to take a test run from Lakehurst, N. J., to St. Louis, was much impressed by the Dixmude's performance...
...English debating team arrived at the South Station at 8 o'clock last night and proceeded to the Harvard Club, where they are being entertained during their stay in Boston. This morning they will visit Symphony Hall in order to test its acoustic properties...
Today's game will not force a real test of the University's strength unless all predictions are upset. Coach Fisher will use only simple formations and if the opportunity occurs will send in various backfield combinations at least in order to test the development of as many members of the squad as possible. The visitors might however, turn the tables if their aerial attack ever got under way, and it looks as if the Crimson secondary defense would bear the brunt of today's work...