Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business competition exclusively for Freshmen will be conducted by the CRIMSON for eight weeks starting Thursday, April 28. Although previous competitions have been open to Freshmen this is the first one which they will not have to con pete with upper classmen...
...Many an upper-class, conservative Negro, embracing the doctrine that the white man is superior to the black, accepts Nordic standards, regrets his dusky hue, shapes his life toward proving that his soul, at least, is white or near-white. More radical Negroes, notably the younger school of Negro writers, resent the assumption of white superiority, feel that black culture is different from but on an equal plane with white, maintain that the future of the colored race lies in its proudly being as black as it is painted...
Thus readers of the Pittsburgh Courier (famed Negro Weekly) read last week an article by Author Langston Hughes, bitterly assailing those members of his race whom he considers a pale reflection of white civilization. Meeting upper-level Negroes of Washington, D. C., Mr. Hughes found them critical of Jean Toomer, Rudolph Fisher and Zora Hurston, Negro novelists, of many another Negro author who has written realistic, often tragic narratives of the Negro masses. "Why doesn't Jean Toomer write about nice people?" asked the Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they...
...which Author Hughes made venomous reply: To those who objected that Artist Reiss had pictured colored schoolteachers in regrettably dark tints he replied: "Should all teachers resemble the high-yellow ladies dominating the Washington school system?" Of the upper-crust Negroes as a class he observed: "Many of the so-called best Negroes are in a sort of nouveau riche class, so from the snobbishness of their positions they hold the false belief that if the stories of Fisher were only about better class people they would be better stories." As to these "best" Negroes' complaint that their lives...
...that Harvard now has there were, in 1892, several others. "The Harvard Daily News," published by under graduate editors, together with one representative from the Law School and one from Radcliffe College, cost $2.50 a year. A literary magazine, the "Harvard Monthly", was edited by men from the two upper classes. The "Harvard Index", issued annually, contained a directory and record of the social and athletic life of the University. The "Harvard Portfolio," an illustrated record "containing pictures of the Senior Class, College teams, etc.", was issued annually. "Portraits of the Harvard Faculty" was also published annually...