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...School Forum will discuss "The Negro in Higher Education" in Sanders tonight at 8:30 p.m. Speakers will be Dean Monro; James M. Nabrit, president, Howard University; Asa S. Knowles, president, Northeastern; and Lawrence C. Howard, from Brandels...
Long on mercy but short on reserves and actuarial experience, the growing business went from crisis to crisis. Then the firm hired a onetime schoolteacher named Asa T. Spaulding, a New York University graduate who had just become one of the nation's first Negro actuaries. He scaled down overly generous interest rates, introduced stiffer medical examinations and began to train Mutual's loosely assembled staff of agents. By 1943 the firm was enough in the black to make its first dividend payment-and has not missed one since. North Carolina-born Spaulding, now 61, became president...
...early Methodist bishop, it was horn a country college in Oxford, Ga., had a heady rebirth in 1915 after the Methodist Church divorced Tennessee's Vanderbilt University. Having dumped Vandy, the Methodists launched two new universities-Emory and Southern Methodist in Dallas. Atlanta's Coca-Cola King Asa G. Candler gave land and $1,000,000-leading to a short-lived suggestion that Emory be renamed for Thomas Coke, another early bishop. Thus lured to Atlanta, Emory still drinks from the same bottle. Coca-Cola money accounts for about half its $70 million assets, and the current Coke...
...affiliated with it, if by nothing more then geography, was an outstanding array of gifted and vigorous men. The home-grown Atlantic Monthly was then publishing the work of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Whittier, and Charles Eliot Norton. In science, to which James initially devoted his efforts, Asa Gray, Benjamin Peirce, and Louis Agassiz stood at the forefront. His earliest chemistry teacher, who--like Conant--later renounced a scientific career to become president of Harvard, found James "very interesting and agree able" but somewhat impulsive and of fickle academic tastes...
...Then was the Wrath of the sons of Harvard kindled within them and they gathered themselves together and went to the House of Edward the Chief Ruler, and said, we will not confess, and if our Rulers shall punish Asa we will depart everyone to his own Home and leave the Rulers to the Meditation out of their own hearts...