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...remarkably effective. "Many public officials," reported O'Leary, "who might . . . defy a lone organization . . . would be loath to go against the wishes of 500 individuals." The Quakers' American Friends Service Committee was refused one meeting hall after a protest that "Alger Hiss attended a . . . Quaker meeting." Dr. Rufus E. Clement, president of Atlanta University and the first Negro ever to become a member of the present Atlanta Board of Education, was invited to lecture at a Houston Methodist church. Minute Women joined in a loud protest that he was too controversial. The University of Houston eliminated history programs...
...original index, still at Princeton, was begun back in 1917, when Charles Rufus Morey, assistant professor of art and archaeology, started searching for a way to make a permanent record of Christian art. This seemed a hopelessly ambitious scheme, for it meant listing every published example of early Christian art, describing it, compiling opinions on its date and meaning, and finally cataloguing it with a photograph. Scholars felt the need for such an index, but, says Professor Morey, "only we were fools enough to get on with...
Stuffy McInnis has three starting pitchers ready for the twin bill: right handers John Arnold (1-1) and Jack Donelan (1-1) and left hander Rufus Webb (1-1). Arnold hasn't seen action in a week, the others in ten days...
...started things off for the visitors in the first inning by driving home Ed Krinsky, who had walked, with a double to the fence in left center. M.I.T. immediately tied the score, however, in their half of the first on lead-off man Bob White's homer off starter Rufus Webb...
...Howard, famed retreat of Harvard students, and the oldest theatre in Boston, will close this Saturday, reports owner and manager Rufus A. "A1" Somerby...