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...named a few of them. The highest peak he measured thus became Mt. Harvard (14,399 ft.), the next highest Mt. Yale (14,172), and a few years later, a third peak naturally was named Mt. Princeton (14,177). Not one Colorado peak bore the name of a Colorado campus...
Pullman Porters & Justices. When it first opened its doors, the school had four students and only one professor-the president, John P. Carter. At one point Founder Dickey had to mortgage his house to save the school, and the struggling campus was continuously harassed by white raids from Maryland. It was not until the 40-year presidency of Princeton Man Isaac Rendall that Lincoln began to come into...
Today, under Horace Mann Bond, its first Negro president, Lincoln spreads out over 275 acres of campus, farm and woodland. Its 15 buildings are an architectural assortment ("You might call them Honest Redbrick or Grotesque Style," says one professor), but they house a first-rate liberal-arts college as well as one of the top Negro seminaries. Though Lincoln has no other professional schools, its alumni account for 17% of U.S. Negro doctors and scientists and 10% of U.S. Negro lawyers. Its graduates have served in twelve state legislatures, been U.S. Ministers to Haiti, Santo Domingo and Liberia. One alumnus...
Rallying behind the Daily Dartmouth's cry that "foul blows have been struck," college students united last week to protest an official directive that Bermuda shorts be abolished from the campus...
...student paper stood squarely behind the shorts, however, and exhorted: "Hairy legs of the campus, unite! We have nothing to lose but our pants...