Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HERMAN JONES Austin, Texas...
...Aeneas, rehearsed conscientiously. Then, only a few days before last week's performance, she was summoned to the office of the dean and told that she must get out of the cast. Dean E. W. Doty was very sorry, but certain legislators in session right there in Austin had objected to having a Negro girl play a romantic lead opposite a white...
Representatives Joseph Chapman and Jerry Sadler were the chief instigators of the plan and both men made contact with President John Wilson of UT. Sadler had previously made a speech before an Austin gathering opposing the casting of a Negress and suggesting that it would be very difficult for the University to get any appropriations from the state legislature that year...
...critical list. The Alabama legislature, for instance, has called the condition of its school buildings "appalling." According to the latest available figures (1953), 726 had no artificial light, 960 no water, 375 no toilets. To build the $300 million worth of classrooms needed by 1960, says Superintendent of Education Austin Meadows, Alabama "most urgently" needs federal money...
...topic "Resolved: That no fetters should be put upon man's right to express freely his political beliefs." Scrivner, Gregory M. Harvey '59, and James L. Kincaid '58 will debate the negative or this topic against the Yale debaters at 8 p.m. in the Ames Court Room in Austin Hall...