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...Line," a play written by Henry Fisk Carleton M.A. '21, of Madison, New Hampshire, has been announced as the Harvard prize play for the current year by a committee of judges consisting of Professor George Pierce Baker '87, head of the 47 Workshop, Mr. Edward B. Sheldon '08, who wrote "Salvation Nell," and Mr. R. G. Herndon, the donor of the prize...
...that time?chiefly reprints of English and Continental authors. The Standard Dictionary first appeared in 1885, edited by Dr. Funk. Dr. Funk was a prohibitionist and his Voice (1880), an organ of the Prohibition Party, reached a circulation of 700,000 in the campaign [Cleveland vs. Harrison vs. Fisk (Pro.)] of 1888. The firm became Funk & Wagnalls Co. in 1891, having established the Literary Digest in 1889. Beside the bulky, bound volumes of that weekly, which constitute an exhaustive compendium of the press opinions of the world on all public questions in the last three decades, the partners have been...
...Celtic (White Star)-The Jubilee Singers (Negro) of Fisk University, Nashville, from a concert tour of England...
...Fisk was founded by Northerners in Nashville in 1866 as a school for emancipated slaves. A disused army barracks first sheltered its classes. General G. B. Fisk then Head of the Freedman's Bureau for Tennessee and adjoining States, took a lively interest in the founding; his friends named the school for him. In 1869, the American Missionary Association (sustained by Congregational churches in the North) took over the ownership-and administration, is still in control. The charter as a university was issued...
...Fisk's President is Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, Lehigh graduate, who has spent much of his time on the Red Indian as well as on the Negro problem...