Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With 1,300 students, $2,000,000 worth of sound buildings and a $7,000,000 endowment fund, Atlanta has had everything but a president since pioneering Dr. John Hope died last year. Last week this want was filled by the election of 37-year-old Dean Rufus Early Clement of Louisville's Municipal College for Negroes...
...Chicago's Charles Gates and Rufus Dawes last week joined the other trustees of their alma mater, Ohio's old Marietta College, to elect as president Rev. Harry Kelso Eversull, Yaleman, Republican, for twelve years minister of Cincinnati's big Walnut Hills Congregational Church...
...plum of a college presidency goes more often to an outsider than an insider. Last week the administrators of Tulane University in New Orleans turned their backs on that precedent as Yale did last month (TIME, Feb. 22), by electing as Tulane's next president Dr. Rufus Carrollton Harris, the 39-year-old Dean of Tulane's crack law school...
...father is a broker. She started taking singing lessons at 11. Last year her voice caught the ear of Hollywood Agent-Manager Jack Sherrill who put her under contract, got her a test with M-G-M for a picture that was never made. Her possibilities impressed Associate Producer Rufus LeMaire. When he joined Universal, he persuaded the new company to hire her, changed her name...
...with one hand accepted President Farrand's long-pending resignation, with the other elected his successor. He is Edmund Ezra Day who, as Director of the Social Sciences Division, is one of the five princes of potent Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Day's Dartmouth classmates still call him "Rufus," because as a freshman he won a Rufus Choate Scholarship by totting up the astounding course average of 92%. "Rufus" Day continued his studying streak so well that he made Phi Beta Kappa, got a job teaching economics at Dartmouth year after graduation, married Emily Sophia Emerson, daughter of Dartmouth...