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...Neighbor-to-Neighbor." The death of King also had a profound effect on the white conscience. Some 300 girls from Goucher, a private college outside riot-torn Baltimore, loaded cars, microbuses and a borrowed hearse with 300 cartons of food and relayed them into the city's burned-out core, racing against a 4 p.m. curfew. Many matrons in Washington and its suburbs contributed food, clothing and shelter to the capital's riot victims. In New York, 5,000 suburbanites signed up for a massive "clean-in" this week in the city's slums...
...weeks ago, the Morgan Staters renewed their effort-joined by white students from Johns Hopkins University and Goucher, a girls' college. In mixed groups, the students entered the Northwood lob by to buy tickets. Each time, the theater manager read aloud the Maryland trespass law. Arrests followed, and in seven days, 413 demonstrators were hauled off to jail. Most refused to post bail, set as high as $600, instead crowded six and seven to a cell, spilled over into corridors, and clambered around the penal premises...
When she became Mary Bunting in 1937, her husband was earning $6 a month as a resident at Baltimore City Hospital. She supported him by teaching physiology at Goucher College. Then he got a $1,200 fellowship at Yale Medical School and became the breadwinner. She worked in a lab for $600 a year, "feeling darned lucky because at that price they had so little string on me." In two years she used her freedom for pioneer work on microbial genetics, and found her research specialty -a bright red bacterium called serratia marcescens, whose color makes it easy to trace...
...GOUCHER COLLEGE...
...College." The church's links with its schools have customarily consisted of the right to name some trustees, the obligation of supplying some funds, and some degree of Christian educational influence. Some schools have slipped their Methodist moorings: Baltimore's Goucher, Connecticut's Wesleyan, Nashville's Vanderbilt, and Southern California-often because meddlesome bishops irked trustees and professors. Some colleges were picked up from other churches, for example, Pennsylvania's Allegheny and Dickinson, which fell on hard times after being started by Presbyterians. But after 1900, the Methodists seemed to lose direction...