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...heavy pall hangs over Washington. The newly arrived stranger in the city reads gloom written all over the faces of the honest burghers. Perplexed to explain the general mourning, he asks a passer-by what great person is dead. Shaking his head, the honest, citizen sighs: "Nobody dead, worse luck. There ain't gonna be any circus at all." After months of feverish anticipation the great show has been canceled...
...spoke of Fisk's President, Dr. Fayette McKenzie (white), spoke of him, for one thing, as a bigoted Puritan, for another, as a race partisan. He cited the case of a Negro girl who had been sent home because she could not explain how she happened to possess a $5 bill. Here there was a knot. Dr. Du Bois went on to tell how President McKensie had "jim-crowed" the students of Fisk, had caused a colored Bishop to be insulted. Said he: "I am told that the Jubilee Club gave a concert down town this year. Not only...
...until Thursday, between 1.30 and 2 o'clock in the news room of the Crimson Building on Plympton street. The managing editor, the two news candidates and several of the editors will be glad to answer all questions regarding the details of the work in this competition and to explain the excellent training which it affords all candidates...
...general mass meeting at the beginning of the crew's season, "but I feel it necessary to clear up some misunderstandings which exist in regard to the crew situation. There is criticism among graduates and undergraduates that crew is a closed sport at Harvard, and I want to explain the relation which crew wishes and ought to bear toward the college. I can do this only in a general meeting...
Professor Carver has recently published a book, "The Economy of Human Energy", in which he touches on the problem of overpopulation in the United States. After quoting from this book he went on to explain his statement...