Word: earlham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nicholas Nich of China. Nich received his undergraduate training at Earlham College, Richmond, Indians, and intends to study international relations at Harvard...
Fred Sheppard, 76, of Baltimore, father of 25 children, went to the House of Correction for operating as a fence for a smallfry gang of 11- and 12-year-olds. Farmer Charles Mleynek, of Earlham, Ia, was found dead in his living room, shot by someone who knocked one afternoon at his kitchen door...
Last week, after 20 years as president of the most prestigious Negro college in the South, 58-year-old Thomas Jones decided it was time to leave. His old Quaker alma mater, Indiana's small, earnest Earlham College (enrollment: 450), had offered him its presidency. Behind him in Nashville, slow-speaking, spiritual Thomas Elsa Jones left a tough challenge to his old students: "The Negro will get respect when he does things to command respect...
Every now & then Jones ran into opposition from two extremes: what he calls "radical, direct-action Negroes and whites" and "status quo whites." Said he last week: "When the Earlham call came, those pincers were closing in again. I think I could have pushed them open, but I said, 'Let them find a younger man.' My work at Fisk has reached the point now where it cannot slip back...