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...President Ralph C. Hutchison of Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. (enrollment: 2,020), the money looked a lot bigger than the string attached to it. By the will of Alumnus Frederick Dumont ('89), Lafayette was to benefit from the income of a $140,000 trust fund. The only hitch: Dumont's stipulation that none of his money be used to give scholarships to Jews or Catholics...
President Hutchison did not like the stipulation, but a fortnight ago he decided to accept the money anyhow and add it to Lafayette's general endowment fund. "The college," he said, "is not in any condition where we can laugh off $140,000." But the decision brought instantaneous rumblings. Alumni phoned in protest. Sniffed the New York Times: "LAFAYETTE ACCEPTS FUND ON BIAS TERMS...
Last week, five trustees led by Thomas J. Watson, chairman of International Business Machines Corp., met with Hutchison. Together they reconsidered the gift, rejected it outright. Said Watson: "It isn't a matter of dollars & cents, but of the principles of Lafayette. We wouldn't sell those principles...
...special ministers' meetings in all important cities and communities, the organization of missions on college and senior high-school campuses, speeches and sermons by churchmen from other lands -England's Bishop Stephen Neill, China's T.Z. Koo, Mexico's Baez-Camargo, Scotland's J. Hutchison Cockburn, India's E. Stanley Jones...
...Hutchison began his ordeal by hops Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock. At 5:15 o'clock, finishing his fifth quart, he told admirers he was feeling marvelous. At 5:20 o'clock, finding himself unable to fulfill the conditions of the bet, he tactfully withdrew...