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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...
...year before Gullion went to Tennessee his hoop team at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, won the Indiana Intercollegiate championship with 24 victories and no losses...
...Inauguration of Dr. William Cullen Dennis as president of Earlham College; in Richmond...
...Chester DeWitt Pugsley, '86, vice-president of the Westchester County National Bank, of Peekskill, New York, 'was one, it became known yesterday, of $10,000 to the Harvard Law School, to be used for research in the codification of international law. Among the other recipients are Princeton University, Earlham College of Indiana, and the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. This is Pugsley's second gift to the Law School this year. On November 14, he established the John Harvey Gregory Trust, consisting of an initial grant of $400,000. Sixty scholarships of $400 each will be available...
...week Mr. Cravath and his fellow trustees were able to name the man. They had chosen and their invitation had been accepted by one Thomas Elsa Jones, a graduate student in sociology at Columbia, a young man who expects to receive his doctorate in May. An Indianian, graduated by Earlham College (Richmond, Ind.) in 1912, Mr. Jones has studied in England and at Hartford Theological Seminary; has been a missionary to Japan, a Y. M. C. A. man in Vladivostock. On June 1 he will become president of the oldest university (1866) for Negroes in the South...