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...Until 1960, the specific location of Roosevet’s suite remained unknown as a result of Adams House’s dramatic expansion over a period of 60 years. A letter written by Roosevelt’s former roommate at Harvard, Lathrop Brown, finally identified the room’s location in the “B” entryway of Adams House...
...know times are tough when spare change from a few generous strangers stands between you and financial ruin. But Atlanta's embattled Morris Brown College will take what it can get. Dimes and quarters trickled into the school's coffers last week as part of an outpouring of community and alumni generosity that allowed the college to appease its debt collectors and keep its doors open - at least for another month...
...Harvard and other deep-pocketed universities grapple with shrinking endowments by halting construction projects and freezing salaries, smaller schools that have no safety cushions are struggling to keep the lights on and the water running - literally. Morris Brown, a historically black school founded by freed slaves 22 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, found itself facing $380,000 in overdue water bills in December, prompting the city to dry up service to the campus. Without short-term loans to pay off some of its millions in debt, Morris Brown announced, it would have to close for the spring and possibly forever...
...another $214,000 was due on Feb. 17. Morris Brown's response to this latest deadline seemed almost like an after-school movie. Despite holding rallies, fundraisers and an auction of prints donated by local artists, by the morning of Feb. 17, the school had managed to raise only $60,000. That afternoon, Stanley Pritchett, Morris Brown's interim president, summoned the students to a mandatory meeting in an auditorium. Many feared the worst. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...alternative housing and food services. But it would not close altogether. "A lot of people were relieved to know there was still hope," says Dixon, adding that because the school's tuition is just $7,000 - far below the average of more than $25,000 for private colleges - Morris Brown is "the only chance" for many of its students to attend college. "When we left the meeting, knowing the circumstance that we were in, we went out and rallied on our own," she says. Holding bright orange and white poster boards with slogans like "Save Our School" and "Stop...