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...superiority came back," he said, and he was alarmed. Jones ran into the Negro again in a German class, and discovered that the Negro knew more German than he did. "Soon we were playing handball together-and in less than a year I had accepted the presidency of Fisk University...
...Nashville, Tenn. last week, young black and white students of both sexes were sitting down to breakfast together in an old red-brick house near Fisk University. All morning and most of the afternoon they were swinging pickaxes on a onetime plantation at the end of 18th Avenue North, west of Hootin' Annie and Billy Goat Hills. Members of the American Friends Service Committee's first interracial work camp in the South, they were converting a little patch of former slave soil into a recreation field for local...
Yale University spent seven and a half million dollars last year to educate 3,112 students. Last week the United Negro College Fund Campaign for only $1,500,000 to be shared among 27 U.S. Negro colleges, got under way at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Keynoter was Fisk University's* white President Thomas Elsa Jones. Heading the drive are John D. Rockefeller Jr., Lord & Taylor's President Walter Hoving, the Chase National Bank's Board Chairman Winthrop Williams Aldrich...
...drive gets its $1,500,000, Fisk University will get $40,000 of it, to provide for operating expenses...
...Located in Nashville, Fisk University is bigger (573 students, 47 on faculty) and better off than most other U.S. Negro colleges, is typical of the best of them. Its chief educational aim: to prepare Negroes to make themselves economically independent. A Fisk specialty: the study of foreign Negro peoples. Fisk's International Student Center may make an important contribution to postwar U.S. relations with Africa and the Caribbean islands. The University's faculty is about half Negro, half white. Fisk is one of the few U.S. colleges whose enrollment went up last year...