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The Crisis

AN EXAMPLE OF HIGH CITIZENSHIP
William Joshua Andrews was born a slave in Williamsburg County, South Carolina on October 15, 1841. He early moved to Sumter, S. C., where he still resides. 
During the Reconstruction Mr. Andrews was a deputy sheriff, a county commissioner, and a member of the State Legislature, sitting as a member of the famous Mackaye House in 1878. As such, he supported legislative measures in the interest of public education and of retrenchment in government. He has been a forceful influence in the church life of his community, organizing a Sunday school in 1867, and serving until now as its superintendent. He has been active, also, in fraternal organizations along his fellows. Embarking in business in 1868, Mr. Andrews has been able, by careful investments and constant attention to details, to acquire valuable property in and about Sumter. 

A MUSICIAN
The marriage of Miss Helen Elise Smith to Mr. R. Nathaniel Dett, the director of Music at Hampton Institute, was solemnized at St. Philip's Church in New York City, December 27, 1916.
Miss Smith was the first Negro to be graduated from the pianoforte department of the Damrosch Institute of Musical Art in New York City. She also did graduate work in the artist's course of the Institute and has demonstrated her ability as a concert performer on numerous occasions. Since her graduation she has rendered efficient and effective service as joint director of the Martin-Smith Music School of New York City. 

THE SUBJECT OF OUR COVER
Professor Richard Theodore Greener was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1844. He was graduated from Harvard University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1870. IN 1875 he was chosen a member of the General Assembly of South Carolina, whose duty was to revise the school system of the state. He was given the degree of LL.B. by the University of South Carolina in 1876. 
Mr, Greener was Dean of the Law Department of Howard University from 1880-1882; Civil Service examiner, New York City, 1885-1890; Secretary of the Grant Memorial Association, 1885-1892; Consul to Bombay and Vladivostok, 1898-1906. Mr. Greener has also attained prominence both as a writer and as a speaker.

RHAPSODY
BY EDWIN J. MORGAN
I am Black
Poushkin or Dumas or Toussaint
L'Ouverture.
I am Black.
I have been the path of the Centuries
And Pharoes and Napoleons have
Trod me up to glory.
I am Black.
I have dredged the Nile
That Civilization might bring
Darkness unto me.
I have cut marble and granite
For Rome and Cartharge.
I have lifted the rocks from
Culebra and Pedro Miguel
And have watched the Seas meet.
I am Black.
I have been the great Burden-bearer,
The rungs in the ladder of mine
Enemy.
Mine Enemy has bound mine eyes.
I have borne him to the mountain-top
And he has gloried in the Sunlight
That I could not see.
But now I shall cast off the bandage
From mine eyes
And I will see the glory
That I have made.
I am Black.

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THE HORIZON

MUSIC AND ART
Coleridge-Taylor's "Tell, O Tell Me" is noted among the choral numbers conducted by John Hyatt Brewer at the first concert of the season by the Brooklyn Apollo Club, Brooklyn, N.Y.
⁌ The first performance in New York of Harry T. Burleigh's Negro spirituals "So Sad," "Father Abraham," and "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?" set for mixed voices. aroused much enthusiasm when sung by the Choral Art Club of Brooklyn, N.Y., at the first concert of the season, December 20, at the Academy of Music in that city. At the close of the group of folk-songs, Conductor Cornell signalled Mr. Burleigh to rise and share the applause. Musical America says: "Mr. Burleigh has realized every possibility in his arrangements and contributed an important item to the literature."
⁌ The Nalle Jubilee Singers presented a program of old plantation melodies at Lincoln Congregational Temple during December and also before a large audience at the Quaker Meeting House in Washington, D.C.
⁌ At a Christmas Musicale, the choir of Bethesda Baptist Church, Chicago, I11., gave an extended program of excerpts from "The Messiah" under the direction of Mrs. Martha B. Anderson.
⁌ Mr. Clarence Cameron White, violin virtuoso, of Boston Mass., has completed a successful concert tour of twenty-two engagements. Of his recital at Quincy, I11., the Quincy Daily Journal says: "Mr. White's positive and strong attack, and his smooth, caressing bowing in passages where that was essential, were the features of his performance. In tone quality he excels many players of more extended reputation."
⁌ Miss Lucine Finch recently gave a recital of "Her Mammy's Stories" at Center Church House in Hartford, Conn. At Steinert Hall in Boston, Mass., Mrs. Nelda Hewitt Hall presented songs of the old southern plantations.
⁌ Prominent white singers are giving important place on their programs to the works of Dekoven Thompson, a Negro song writer of New York City. Mme. Schumann-Heink will feature "A Heart Disclosed," and Mme. Bell Story, the sensation of the Hippo-drome last season, "Love Comes but Once," and "Mandy, When You Comin' Back?"
⁌ Miss Laura Wheeler, a colored woman, is one of the twelve prize winners for her painting,"Heirlooms," exhibited at the New York Water Color Club and selected out of five hundred exhibits. It will be made a permanent illustration for the Water Color Club catalog. Miss Wheeler is teaching art in the Cheyney Training School for Teachers.
⁌ The Choral Club of Paul Quinn College, which has had the distinction of singing before Baylor University, Waco, Texas, and other similar distinctions, held a Negro folk-lore festival in Waco, December 14, at St. Paul's A. M. E. Church.
⁌ The following letter has come to Mr. William Stanley Braithwaite from Copenhagen: "My dear Congenial! Soldier since twenty months, guarding a Danish shore, your poems were often a great consolation for me in the monotony of the military life. I beg you to forgive my audacity, but I should be very glad, if you would send me your 'Lyrics of life and love,' or any other of your collections of poems, with a dedication. Perhaps I then must send you my own poems (Digle, 1907-1914) as a little promise of my reconnaissance and my admiration. With all the best salutations, Yours truly, Carl Kjersmeier."
⁌ A novelty on the program of Olga Samaroff, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was Thorwald Otterstrom's "American Negro Suite," based on Negro religious melodies.
⁌ At Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Mass., three Negro musicians, Messrs. Roland Hayes tenor; William H Richardson, baritone; William S. Lawrence, accompanist, were among the participants in the musicale for the benefit of the Animal Rescue League.
⁌ The silver anniversary of the Amphion Glee Club, in Washington, D.C., was celebrated December 21 with a musical and a literary program, reception and cotillion. Mr. J. Henry Lewis has been manager and director of the organization since its beginning.
⁌ The Howard High School, Wilmington, Del., presented as a Christmas entertain-
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