THE BADGE OF A FAMOUS COLLEGE
The badge of Achimota College, the well known centre for the education of African negroes, with whose beginning Dr. James Abbrey had so much to do, consists of a number of black and white jjiano keys. The origin of the badge is to be found in the "piano parable" of Dr. Abbrc.y, by which he showed what he thought about the black and white races working together, for the good of all. "You can play a tune of sorts,," he said, "on the white keys of a piano, and you can play a tune of sorts on the black keys of a piano, hut for the best kind of harmony you must use both the black and the. wliitf\"
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 88, 9 July 1943, Page 2
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125THE BADGE OF A FAMOUS COLLEGE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 88, 9 July 1943, Page 2
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