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...perceive that this was no casual donation of a gratuity. The little disk was, indeed, the highest formal honor which a Negro can achieve?the Spingarn medal, awarded annually* to that Negro who, in the opinion of a committee, has better deserved distinction than any other of his race. Tenor Roland Hayes, the recipient, expressed his thanks...
Next day, the press of the Nation affirmed, quite correctly, that the reward could not have been better bestowed. Tenor Hayes is an artist of the first rank. Born in Curryville, Ga., his mother a freed slave, he worked as a stove-molder, sang in a church choir, was encouraged to train his voice. At first, because of the incredible prejudice against his race, he received scant attention in the U. S. He went to Europe, toured England triumphantly, sang before King George in Buckingham Palace (TIME, Oct. 8, 1923), conquered hostile audiences in Germany, returned...
Walter Damrosch, in his eulogy of Tenor Hayes?an unusually felicitous utterance from the famed conductor?did well to stress the adjectives "civilized," "European," as applied to accepted music. For, while it is rare that a Negro comes to note for his interpretation of "the music of our old masters," there is another musical tradition which arose out of the black race and has bid fair to jostle civilized, European music into limbo...
...board of the Cornell Daily Sun starts its coming year with the illuminating statement that "through its editorial columns it will seek to interpret or comment upon current news and events of the day as well as upon questions of a more or less academic tenor, holding that mere discussion or view of a moot problem is often of as much value as taking a definitely defined position regarding its consideration or solution...
...present time, all of the essays submitted have been read by each of the judges, and by common agreement the five most satisfactory have been selected for final judgement. In weighing the merits of the essays, the constructive tenor of the argument as well as its literary excellence will be taken into consideration...