Despite a steady downpour of cold rain, and such a volume of mud as town and campus have rarely seen before, Gerrard Hall was packed to the doors when the negro chemist George W. Carver, spoke Thursday night. He is famous for the large number of products he has made from sweet potatoes, peanuts, and Alabama red clay, and he displayed dozens of his specimens to the audience.
After the talk the students crowded up to the platform to get a close look at them, and many, lead by C.C. Poindexter, congratulated the scientist and asked him questions about his work at Tuskegee. His achievements with his three favoriet mediums seem to partake of wizardry. From them he has made paints, breakfast foods, candies, beverages, cosmetics and medicines.
Tuesday morning he laid out the results of his investigations out in the Y.M.C.A. building for the further entertainment and enlightenment of the students.
From page 3 of The Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, Jan. 22, 1925
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