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...victim of the Depression. In spite of every economy, it could not afford to keep up its library or replace its retiring professors. It even had to pay part of its faculty in scrip. In 1936 the North Central Association finally withdrew its accreditation. Today, reports President Ira W. Langston, the yearly deficit is still $20,000, and though the library is climbing up to par and the college has about the proper proportion of Ph.D.'s on its faculty, it cannot approach the association until Langston balances his budget. But where will the money come from? One corporation...
...Negro lawyers. Its graduates have served in twelve state legislatures, been U.S. Ministers to Haiti, Santo Domingo and Liberia. One alumnus, ex-Pullman Porter Hildrus A. Poindexter, is a ranking authority on tropical diseases; N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall graduated in 1930; a year before, Lincoln produced Poet Langston Hughes...
Laval Robillard '53 replied that "football is very definitely not part of the college curriculum." Robert Langston '53 contrasted football in terms of the "ethical idea of a university" and the "aesthetic beauty of a good football team," and decided in favor of the present football setup...
Only one Athenaeum member, Robert Langston '53, remained an independent by not affiliating with either caucus...
...more cooperative witness was Negro Poet Langston Hughes, whose books (200 copies of 16 titles) are spread through 51 of the libraries. He readily admitted that he had followed the Communist line for many years, but insisted that he had turned away from it completely in 1950. When McCarthy asked if he thought his Commie-line books "should be on our shelves throughout the world, with the apparent stamp of approval of the U.S. Government," Hughes exclaimed: "I was certainly amazed to hear that they were . . . I would certainly...