Word: hairshirts
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...University of Chicago. He has raised $5,000,000 for expansion of Howard, which today has 2,108 men and women students in nine graduate and undergraduate branches, gets most of its money for operating expenses from the U. S. Government. Abuse from disgruntled alumni has been the hairshirt of Howard University presidents, even of its first president, O. O. Howard, who was investigated by a Congressional committee and exonerated. All of it is due, President Johnson insists, to the hope of Negro intellectuals close to the Government that they may get jobs if there is a shakeup...