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...April 30 Dr. Rufus Cole, director of the hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, reached the age of 65-time for a major Rockefeller Institute executive to retire. The Institute had Dr. Cole's successor, Dr. Thomas Milton Rivers, 48, who had worked there for 15 years, all ready. The shift was formally announced last week...
...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...
...Salisbury, N. C., where his late father George C. was Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion. When Louisville, to placate its 30,000 Negroes who were blocking a $1,000,000 bond issue for its Municipal University, opened a Municipal College for Negroes in 1931, Rufus Clement became its first dean. No high-powered intellectual like Fisk's James Weldon Johnson. Dr. Clement is esteemed among his colleagues for executive ability and tact. He plays an excellent game of tennis and. with his wife Pearl as a partner, an even better game of bridge...
...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...