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location, rendering it undesirable and inconvenient. The Trustees have permission to remain intact for two years, and are now endeavoring to secure an eligible site two or three miles from the city

Among the classes visited at Fisk University I had the pleasure of listening, all things considered, to one of the best singing clubs it has been my fortune to hear. The members of this class, young ladies and gentlemen, are under the instruction of the Professor of Music Geo L. White. They have fair voices are thoroughly drilled and sing large and varied selection including anything from the common ditty to the difficult opera. During the year, they have given concerts in many of the leading Southern Cities, always with crowded houses and with great success. As an evidence of the favor shown them, and to relieve them somewhat of the mortification resulting from discrimination, on a recent trip from Nashville to Memphis, a special palace car was placed at their disposal. The Professor emboldened by his success when I left Nashville, was about to make preliminary arrangements for concerts in the large cities in Kentucky, Ohio and Tenn. indeed his friends had already secured audiences for him at Columbus, Pittsburg and Harrisburg. On enquiring his purpose in exhibiting this troop, he replied in substance, that many who would not stop to hear the 

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