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Black colleges are also more likely to provide vital encouragement to marginal students. Sulayman Clark, 35, was on the verge of dropping out of mostly white Temple University when he transferred to 152-year-old Cheyney University in Cheyney, Pa. Bolstered by attentive professors, he not only graduated but went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. "If Cheyney did not exist, my career would have been over," he says...
...actress of insouciant charm and wit who graced vaudeville in the pre-World War I era, silent films and later talkies, but mostly the Broadway stage, where she specialized from 1917 to 1954 in the highly varnished comedies of bad manners and good breeding (The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, 1925; Biography, 1932; Ode to Liberty, 1934) in which the characters misbehave in venomous, perfectly timed epigrams; in San Francisco...
...Spain, George Reynolds and Don Cheyney, "Keep the Ball Rolling...
Small but diverse groups ranging from the Yippies and Zippies to Hari Krishna to SDS are holed up at the Park. Among them are several familiar Harvard activists, including Ira A. Helfand '72. Cheyney D. Ryan '71, and Hillary Putnam, professor of Philosophy...
...Veech said Sunday night, "Our continuance is a victory. It proves that the University thinks it's more worth-while to avoid militant trials like Cheyney's than send us to jail...