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...Alabamian refused to admit Negroes to a public meeting, he would surprise nobody. Neither would a Virginian who refused to attend a church where Negroes were worshipping. Last fortnight the Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Texas-born Brooklyn rector, asked Negro members of his congregation to go elsewhere to church. A lot of people were surprised. A lot of others were incensed...
Louisiana State University (and Agricultural and Mechanical College), at Baton Rouge, La., in search of a president, singled out Major Campbell Blackshear Hodges, commandant of cadets* at West Point. Though the university is coeducational, this choice was not unusual, nor need foes of military training in the colleges have become excited. Louisiana State has long had a cadet corps. In 1911 Major Hodges commanded it, teaching Spanish at the same time. He is well-known in the state, having organized its militia (1915-17). Square-cut, with steel-grey hair and large brown eyes, he would doubtless be a president...