Word: mcguinn
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...that it distresses young black students. Last week defenders of Huck as a satire of racism were bolstered by news that Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens, had recorded his views of black and white in a private letter. He had been asked to support the education of Warner T. McGuinn, one of the first black students to attend Yale Law School. "I do not believe I would very cheerfully help a white student who would ask a benevolence of a stranger," Clemens wrote to the dean in the 1885 letter, which has been authenticated by Yale Scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin...
Barnardsville Elementary School in North Carolina has installed a vending machine to sell noncarbonated soft drinks; coins deposited in it go into the lunch program. Says Principal Roy P. McGuinn: "I'm opposed to it, but I'll compromise my principles that far to help this program." Leith Walk Elementary School in Baltimore is considering buying prepackaged lunches from outside suppliers instead of preparing food in its own kitchen...