Fisk University Student and Student Organization Information

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Tisk Universty,

NASPPITE 2. TENNESTIN

1286,

BY LAWS.

1. No member of the societv shall
be absent from any meeting without
permission from the President, except
in .case of sickness or absence from
the school. Two violations of this law
in one school year shall forfeit her mem-
bership.

2. ayxcuses from exercises shall be
referred to the President and Chairman
of the Executive Committee. Nomen-
ber of the society failing twice in one
year without excuse from the proper
persons, shall longer be called a mem-
ber of the society.

3. No member of the society shall
leave the room during a meeting with-
out an excuse from the Chairman of

the meeting. A violation of this law
shall forfeit her membership.

4. The Secretary shall read the
minutes at the end of the meeting in
which they are taken and at the next
meeting after adoption they shall be
read from the Secretarys book. After
the adoption of any by-law or amend-
ment to the constitution, such by law
oramendment shall be read from the
Secretarys book at next meeting.

5. The report of the Executive
Committee shall be prepared and read
two meetings ahead at every meeting
and the committee shall put the pro-
gramme in sight at least a week before.

6. The Secretary shall have her
books, containing the constitution, by-
laws and minutes at every meeting.

HERALD Frint.
FISK WOMEN
AFTER
GRADUATION

SUSAN M. HARRIS was one of the three
members of the first graduating class of the Normal
Department of Fisk University thirty-seven years
ago. This young woman married and began
housekeeping. About the same time two blind
negro children were left charges of the State of
Tennessee. As no provision had been made for
such unfortunates, the officials undertook the
difficult task of getting the children cared for ina
negro home. When this effort proved a failure,
this young Fisk woman, true to her training,
assumed the care of the children until a home
could be found. But, instead of finding a home
for the two, there were four others brought to
her. Then the State purchased a house in which
to place these and similar children, and until a
suitable person should be found to permanently
take charge of it, persuaded Susan Harris to
assume those duties. That was thirty-one years
ago, and she is still at the head of that work,
being designated now as Principal, Colored
Department, School for the Blind, Nashville,
Tenn. Besides book knowledge, she gives these

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blind children manual training courses, and has
sent out hundreds of them to live happy and
useful self-supporting lives,

Another graduate, class 1887, MINNIE L.,
SCOTT-CROSTWAIT, has given almost her
whole life to the service of others, Up to 1879,
the negro schools of Nashville were taught by

white teachers. At that time some of those

who had passed through those schools were
Freshmen at Fisk University. This attracted
attention, and encouraged the Board of Education
to see what the negro would do in the school-
room with his own children. This young Fisk
graduate was the first to qualify and pass the
examination, and with two Fisk men was ap-
pointed, being therefore one of the first three
colored teachers to teach in the Nashville schools.
After fourteen years of service in the city schools,
and a few years in a training School in another
city, this young woman was made Principal of
the Normal Department of Fisk University, in
which capacity she has made hundreds efficient
in school management, and imbued them with
her own spirit of seif-sacrificing service for others.

In the City of Mobile is another one of those
brave, energetic women, ROSA L. SHEP-
PARD-CALDWELL, of the class of 1883.
She, too, is a wife, mother, teacher and social
worker. Her life has been a benediction to
many of the unfortunates in her city. This

graduate has given considerable time and attention

to juvenile rescue work. The city authorities
for some years maintained a telephone in her
residence, and when a youthful negro offender

was brought before the Court, instead of his
being sent to prison, he was turned over to this
Fisk woman who was secretary of a club which
took the responsibility of placing miscreants under
wholesome influences. For years that work was
carried on by her until it grew to such propor-
tions that the State had to take it in hand. Then -
this woman was made a Probate Officer for
negro boys. This same graduate, with the help
of the club referred to and several churches in
Mobile, established and maintains a Home for
Aged and Homeless Negro Women.

419 other women graduates from Fisk with
interesting personalities and fine minds to be
home makers, teachers, missionaries, doctors,
nurses, etc.. Among them was Marcarer J.
Murray (Mrs. Booker 'T. Washington ), Super-
intendent Girls Industries, Tuskegee Institute ;
Vircinta Exiza Wacker, Secretary Womans
(Baptist) Missionary Board and Teacher Home
Missionary Institute; Atraea M. Brown, Mis-
sionary, Africa, under Southern Presbyterian
Board ; Ceceria H. Hottoway, National Secre-
tary Y. W.C. A.; Grayce V. Frank, Teacher
Domestic Science Episcopal Settlement House ;
Resecca L, Turner-Furr, Principal Newport
News Domestic Training School and Kinder-
garten.

The influence of their earnest Christian lives
cannot be measured, inasmuch as the record of
their sacrifices and contributions to humanity
have not been kept. It is known, however,
that every one is serving, and where, with the
determination that every negro man, woman and
child who comes under her influence shall be

raised to that high standard of industrious and
moral life set by her teachers at Fisk University.
She has not hesitated to take upon her shoulders
any burden that would help in the uplifting.
She could be wife, mother, cook, and nurse at
home, and, besides, a teacher and social worker
for the community in which she lived. If she
did not marry she has always been able to earn,
with mind or hands, an honest and useful living,
and at the same time be reaching and striving
for the best and most beautiful that life has to
give, both for herself and her race. It promises
well for the future of the negro race if influenced
by Christian women of such endowments and
aspirations.

Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.

Fisk UNIVERSITY

Fisk. University aims to give its students the
best possible equipment for success in their life
work. It is considered that a high standard of
Christian manhood and womanhood must go
with the best possible education in order to se-
cure this equipment. The rules embodied in this
pamphlet have been found necessary to the suc-
cessful administration of this) University, and
they have been put into printed form that all
might have an opportunity of becoming familiar
with them. This statement is not intended to in-
clude all the minor rules of the institution, nor
such special rules: as may be needed from time
to time. Any young persons who persistently
refuse to conform to these requirements will be
obliged to withdraw, as their continued presence
here would be opposed to the best irfterests of
the majority.

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

1. Every student should be present on the first
day of the school year and continue until its
close. New students and old students having con-
ditions must appear for examination and classi-
fication on Monday and Tuesday of the first week
of the year. The regular recitations will begin
on Wednesday, and students not registering on

or before that day will be charged an extra fee
of one dollar, unless previously excused. A
similar charge will be made in case of tardiness
at the beginning of the second or third terms of
the year..

2. Day students are expected to observe in
general the same regulations respecting deport-
ment, habits of study, and attendance upon re-
ligious services as those living in the Boarding
Department. They are expected not to visit the
dormitory rooms except by specia! permission
from the officers in charge.

3. The following practices are strictly for-
bidden: Profanity, betting, and gambling; the
use of ardent spirits as a beverage, and the use
of tobacco; also card-playing and dancing.

4. All students are subject to the discipline of
the University for unworthy conduct during ab-
sence from the institution.

5. Proper care of the grounds and buildings
of the University is enjoined upon all. Injuries
to buildings or other property of the University
must be paid for by the persons responsible.
Quiet and orderly deportment is required in all
of the buildings.

6. No student is allowed to keep or use pistols
or other weapons or any fireworks in or about
the University.

BOARDING DEPARTMENT.

The Boarding Department is conducted as a
Christian home, and the rules are only those
which are universally considered necessary for
the training of cultured men and women.

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1. Studetits are expected to study carefully the
schedule of bells by which the periods are
marked, and to cultivate promptness at all exer-
cises.

It is especially important that at meal-time the
students be prompt in coming and in going. Per-
sistent tardiness will be considered a cause for
discipline.

2. No promise of student aid is made for more
than one year. Such aid is given in return for
extra work, and will not be continued if the
student falls below the standard in scholarship
or deportment, or does not do the assigned work
in a manner satisfactory to the officers of the
University.

3. Boarding students are required to attend the
University Sunday morning church services, the
Sunday school, mid-week prayer meeting, ~ and
daily chapel devotions, or exercises substituted
for any of these.

4. On account of danger from fire, all lights
in dormitory rcoms must be extinguished when
the occupants are absent for any considerable
time. The use of gasoline, or any similar in-
flammable substance as a cleaning agent, is pro-

- hibited in any of the buildings of the University.

5. All clothing intended for the University
laundry must be distinctly marked with the
owners name.

6. Bedding and clothing hung from the win-
dows for airing must be taken in before 8:30 a.m.
No articles will be allowed to stand in window-
sills except drinking water pitchers, or plants in
suitable pots or boxes. :
REGULATIONS FOR YOUNG WOMEN IN
JUBILEE HALL.

1. The west door and stairway must be used
by the young women during school hours (8 a.m.
to 4 p.M.), and the north stairway for the passage
to and from meals.

2. The young women are not allowed to enter
the basement unless their work requires them to
do so, nor the dining-room except for work, for
meals, or for piano practice. The reception room
is to be used only for the purges of receiving
visitors,

3. On school days no young woman shall enter
anothers room before 8 a.m. or after 7 P.M.; on
Sundays before 10 A.M. or after 7 p.M., without
permission from the proper officer. Each student
must remain in her room during the quiet hour
on Sunday.

4. At 9 p.m. the bell rings for the close of study
hour, and fifteen minutes are given for recreation.
At the ringing of the 9:15 bell each young woman
must be in her room for the night. The 9:30
bell is the signal for putting out lights and retir-
ing for the night.

5. The young women are allowed to go to the
city once a month in charge of a responsible
person, and those whose homes are in the city
are allowed to spend Saturday at home once a
month. :

6. The young women are ensaus to attend
the regular religious services and the free lec-
tures provided by the University,

7. Permission should be secured by a student
for receiving in her room a lady visitor. No

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student is permitted to receive a visit in her
room from a gentleman, nor are students allowed
to receive visitors on the Sabbath. Young women
who are considered of the proper age are allowed
to receive in the reception room, between 4:30
and 5:20 p.m., one call a fortnight from a gentle-
man, and also to accept company to. rhetoricals
and to other specified entertainments. No young
woman is allowed to receive a call from a
gentleman other than a student of the University,
except by permission previously secured from
the Lady Principal.

8. Written excuses for absence from school
exercises must be secured from the health officer,
if on account of illness; for all other reasons,
from the Lady Principal.

9. Young women who desire to return to
Jubilee Hall from school, except for regular work
or music, must secure permission from the teacher
in charge of the school room.

10. All young women will be required to con-
form to the special regulations in regard to dress.

HOUSE REGULATIONS FOR YOUNG
MEN.

1. The study hours of the day include all
school hours except those taken up in recitations ;
those of the night are regulated and announced
by the officers in charge of the hall. The young
men are expected to spend the study hours in
their own rooms, save as some other = has
been appointed.

2. At the ringing of the bell at 9: 50 p.M. the
young men must go to their own rooms and
prepare for retiring. At the 1o p.m. bell they are

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required to put out their lights and retire for
the night.

3. The young men are expected to go to their
meals regularly and promptly, but not to start
before the ringing of the tower bell. For each
meal brought over to a students room an extra
charge of ten cents will be made, except in cases
of severe illness.

4. The young men must not loiter in or about
Jubilee Hall or grounds at any time, nor use
those grounds as a thoroughfare.

5. Young men desiring to leave the grounds
of the University during school hours, or after
7 P.M., must secure permission. An exception is
made in the case of college students on Friday
and Sunday nights, provided they return before
the time for retiring.

6. The young men are expected to observe the
calling regulations of Jubilee Hall. They are
forbidden to accompany the young women board-
ers, Or young women day students, while in the
vicinity of the University, to and from school or
any other University exercise, except as other-
wise provided. (See Jubilee Hall Regulations,
No, 6.)

SCHOOL REGULATIONS.

1. Attendance upon chapel prayers is required
from all students.

2. For absence from any required duty, stu-
dents must present to the teacher or officer con-
cerned a written statement of their reasons. If
this excuse is not satisfactory, the absence will
be counted against the students deportment or
scholarship, as the case may be. If illness is the

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cause of the absence, the excuse must be ob-
tained by a boarder from the. health officer in
charge, and by a day student from parent or
physician. :

3. Any student in the collegiate grades who

has been absent from a regular examination with-
out previous excuse from his teacher, or who
requires more than the regular examination, can
take such examination only on presenting a per-
mit secured from the Treasurer of the University
by payment of a fee of fifty cents.
_ 4. Any student who desires to leave the
grounds during school hours must secure per-
mission beforehand from the proper officer.
Such permission does not constitute an excuse
for absence from recitation.

5. During school hours, and at the close of
school, the young men of the Collegiate depart-
ments are expected to use the north or south
stairs in Livingstone Hall, and not the central
stairs, nor the east or west central doors and
steps.

6. The pianos of the Department of Music are
to be used only by music pupils doing regularly
assigned work, and no other persons are allowed
in these rooms.

7. New students will be classed in the cata-
logue according to the general average of their
acquirements as accepted by the professors in
their several departmentsthat is, a student hav-
ing a years work accepted in any study in ad-
vance of a given class, but behind that class 2
year in one other study, will be catalogued with
that class. Thereafter, to entitle a student to
regular advancement with his class in the cata-

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logue of any year, all deficiencies must be made
upas far as the beginning of the winter term of
that year. Seniors will not be allowed to do
extra work during the spring term, therefore all
their deficiencies must be made up before that
time.

8. Any student whose scholarship is entirely
unsatisfactory will be required to withdraw from
the school at the close of the term.

9. No student will be allowed to represent the
University on any athletic team who does not
maintain throughout the year a satisfactory
record in scholarship and deportment.

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SECOND

ANNUAL x MEETING

OF -THE

WHITE CROSS LEAGUE

OF

FISK UNIVERSITY,

Nashville, enn.

APRIL 19TH, 1801,
LIVINGSTONE HALL,
L380. Pi ME

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my
heart is pure.

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PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW.
PRAYER.
ANTHEM.
SCRIPTURE READING.
PRAYER.
HYMN.

ADDRESS,
H. H. WRIGHT, Pres. W. C. L. Fisk University.

PRAYER.
HYMN.

BENEDICTION.

NAMES OF MEMBERS.

ORIGINAL MEMBERS, 22.

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D. Porter,
. J. Watkins,
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Proctor,

Lanier,
se Fortson,
. W. Virtis,
mae Blake,

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J. D. McCall,
Je lis Murray.
wWw.S. Ellington,
Wim. Woods,*
W. J. R. Whitsett,
S. P. Cole,
L. B. Moore,
James D. Miller,
S. H. Webb,
Cc. W. Driskell,
Mac Turner,
N. J. Anderson,
J. J. Scott,
W. L. Johnson,
J. R. Trotter,
. F. Scott,

sa. Smith,
- U. Goin,
J. E. Perkins,
ae E, Brown,

od a. Inborden,
Ww. Stokes,
D. W. Dunn,

J. W. Holloway,
Geo. H. Terral,

* Deceased.

B. H. Morrell,
J. A. Lester,

J. N. Calloway,
D. W. Sherrod,

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B. FE Darrell,
eis Barbour,
I. H. Anthony,
T, 2. Barris,
Cc. O. Hunter.

F. B. Coffin,

S. S. Willis,
Wm. Davis,

a. 15; Thomas,
Edward Graves,
A. P. Neill,
Alex. Whitfield,
Thos. W. Talley,
Jno. Q. Johnson,
s. A. D. McClellan,
C. K. Chase,

J. T. Warren,

S. Garner,

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Geo. . Alexander,
Chae. Parham,

| OR = Calloway,
Philip Gray,
Of; Garrett,
Gentry Maury,
Baker DePugh,
Jonas Gentry,
Henry Bailey,
Wm. Burnett,

S. A. Chase,

Pe os Wiley,

C. R. Lewis,

SILVER CROSS BRANCH,
Eddie Harper.

W. E. Benson.
| WHITE CROSS PLEDGE.

PROMISE BY THE HELP OF GOD

1.To treat all women with respect, and endeavor to
protect them from wrong and degradation.

2.To endeavor to put down all indecent language and
coarse jests.

3.-To maintain the law of purity as equally binding
upon men and women.

4.To endeavor to spread these principles among my
companions, and to try and help my younger
brothers.

5.To use every possible means to fulfil the command,
Keep THYSELF pure.

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FISK CLUBS
MEETING

Temporary Officers

Rev. Henry H. Procror, Chairman
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Washington, D.C.

Dr. W.E. B. Du Bois, Ch. Ex. Com.
New York, N. Y.

Tuesday, August 25, 1925

WABASH AVENUE Y.M.C.A.
Chicago, Illinois

Her Sons AND Her DauGutTers ARE EVER ON THE ALTAR

Program

2.00 P.M.Welcome in behalf of Fisk Clubs
of Chicago, Mr. L. L. Foster

2.10 P.M.Response in behalf of Allied Fisk

Clubs, Mr. A. C. Allison, Hart-
ford, Conn.

2.20 P.M.Address by Chairman

2.35 p.M.Report by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois,
New York City

2.50 P.M.Business

3.30 P.m.Address, The Outlook at Fisk,

_Rev. P. E. Baker, Nashville,
Tenn.

3.45 P.M.Discussion

4.00 P.M.Address, Student Activities,
Rev. J. C. Olden, Washington,
BD: C.

4.15 P.M.Discussion

4.30 P.M.Address, The Trustees and the
Alumni, Mr. W. H. Baldwin,
New York City

4.45 P.M.Discussion

5.00 p.M.Address, Alumni Representa-
tion on Board of Trustees, Capt.
A. C. Boutt, New York City

5.15 P.M.Discussion

5.30 P.M.Address, The Presidency of
Fisk, Prof. H. A. Miller, Colum-
bus, Ohio

5-45 P.M.Discussion
6.00 p.M.DINNER

7.00 P.M.Address, The Financial Cam-

po eee _paign, Dr. F. A. Stewart, Nash-
ie Ten, pee ee

4.15 P.M.Discussion

8.00 P.M.Summary of Findings, Mr. John
Marquess, Philadelphia, Pa.

8.15 P.M.Discussion
8.30 p.M.Unfinished Business

9.00 P.M.In Memoriam Mrs. Booker T.
Washington, Mrs. Mame Stewart
Josenberger, Fort Smith, Ark.

9.30 P.M.Adjournment

NOTES

Each Club is entitled to one representative for every ten members.
For local information communicate with Mr. Lemvuet L. Foster, President, Chicago Fisk
Club, 3621 South State Street; telephone Victory Life Insurance Company, Overton Building.

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