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...beyond these requirements, it was Hollis' "mind and will . . . that not less than one third part of the number of Students.....be of that Belief or Persuasion called Baptist, both now hereafter and alwaies." The Scholarship Committee has taken the "not less than one third part" to mean that a least four of the winners must be Baptists...
Harding & Missiles. Underlying the U.S.'s local preoccupations was some real news of a different sort: after years on end of living with crisis and talk of crisis, the U.S. has settled into a New Normalcy, unhaunted by fears that twitches abroad mean another world war or that economic twinges at home mean another Great Depression...
...return of the vanquished sectarians increased a malaise among the party hopefuls who had been so enthusiastic four months ago. In an atmosphere of suspense and suspicion, they and the world would be watching eagle-eyed in coming months for those subtle changes which mean so much in Communist Party politics, and are sometimes signaled by putative Putraments...
After the meeting students began packing up to leave. At week's end the state college board declared that those who did not report to their classes on Monday would be considered expelled, which would mean that they would never be eligible for any other Mississippi-run campus. For good measure, it also condemned the administration for having ''wholly failed," fired President Otis, and appointed a new man. The week ended in total confusion. King said he was fired. The board said he was not. The question still remained: would Alcorn have enough students to stay alive...
...later in considering alternatives to present methods; the trouble with this polemic issue of i.e. was that it did not study other ways. Even so, its blunderbuss onslaught was useful in stimulating thought, especially among some students who would ordinarily never think about education and what it ought to mean...