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King George at Buckingham Palace. Now he returns to the U. S. to test his native country. Roland Hayes began his life with the hard labor of the small farm-holding Negroes of the South. His parents owned a small piece of cotton land. The boy and his brother ploughed, chopped cotton, picked cotton. In time he contrived to work his way through Fiske University at Nashville. He had a pleasant tenor voice. He undertook vocal studies. He made a little reputation and began his professional career with a recital at Symphony Hall, Boston...
Today's game will not force a real test of the University's strength unless all predictions are upset. Coach Fisher will use only simple formations and if the opportunity occurs will send in various backfield combinations at least in order to test the development of as many members of the squad as possible. The visitors might however, turn the tables if their aerial attack ever got under way, and it looks as if the Crimson secondary defense would bear the brunt of today's work...
After the vocalists have been tried this evening, Dr. A. T. Davison '06 will test all candidates for the assistant-accompanist position...
...examination, to test reading knowledge of German, will be held this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Harvard 5 and 6. Only students who have already filed applications will be allowed to take the examination...
...idea of selection according to race or religion has little to recommend it. An intelligence test, personal conference, geographical or graduate personal conference geographical or graduate preference, arbitrary fixation of numbers, and a raised standard of admission are what apparently remain. Turning its back on all of these except the last, the Harvard special committee on admission, in its report last April, recommended "several steps in the way of excluding inferior students". It is too early to judge whether these steps have served their object. Certainly they have done nothing to solve the problem of enrollment...