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...Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, onetime Morgan partner, was chairman of the board's executive committee; President Stanley King of Amherst was a member of the board, as were President Walter Lee Lingle of Davidson College (N. C.) and President-elect Pat Morris Neff of Baylor University...
...Neff to Baylor...
...native-born Texan and a rustic who has never shot a gun, baited a hook, used tobacco in any form, or drunk anything stronger than Brazos water.''* Thus wrote the late President Samuel Palmer Brooks of Baylor University (Waco. Tex.) in his introduction to Battles for Peace, a collection of addresses by his good friend Pat Morris Neff. Many people might have doubted that such a Texan ever existed. Pat Neff not only existed but became Texas' Governor (1921-25). Well-known now is the story of how. hunting with a party which included the late William Jennings Bryan...
Year ago Pat Neff, who had resumed his old law practice in Waco, hurried out to Baylor. His friend Sam Brooks lay dying of cancer, signing diplomas for his seniors almost to the hour of his death (TIME, May 18). Lawyer Neff watched by his side. Between the two was long and close friendship. They had roomed together for a time at Baylor, from which Pat Neff was graduated in 1894. Brooks became Baylor's president in 1902, Neff its board president in 1903. Both worked for peace, the one as organizer of Texas' first State Peace Congress...
...potent State Railroad Commission (which controls oil, also settles rail & bus disputes), perhaps because he disliked leaving his two colleagues a free hand, he delayed his decision. Up until last week he had not resigned his Commissionership. But he announced last week he would assume the presidency of Baylor next autumn...