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Almost daily since the U.S. Supreme Court banned segregation in the public schools, an odd ritual has taken place in little (pop. 5,100) Hillsboro, Ohio. Each morning before the Webster elementary school opened, a group of Negro mothers would march up to its main door, parade around for a while with placards reading, "Our Children Play Together; Why Can't They Learn Together?" and then return peacefully to their homes. There was never any violence, not even a sign of hate or temper. But the fact remained that Hillsboro is the scene of the only integration battle...
Until 1939 Hillsboro never really thought of maintaining separate Negro and white schools. But that year, when Webster was jammed to capacity, the board of education decided to solve the problem by quietly packing all Negro pupils off to the ramshackle Lincoln elementary school on the east side of town. For 15 years no one protested. Then came the Supreme Court's historic decision. Negro parents living nearer Webster than Lincoln began demanding that Webster admit their children. The board's answer: it redistricted the whole town, assigned two widely separated Negro neighborhoods to all-Negro Lincoln...
...down (he was convicted of arson and sentenced to 1 to 15 years, paroled after serving nine months). Later, five Negro mothers took their case to court. All this failed to budge the board an inch. When school opened that fall, 22 Negro children who tried to get into Webster were turned away. Their mothers, refusing to send them to Lincoln, began tutoring them at home...
...Orlan Lee '56 and John E. Trent '58 won first prizes of $35 in the finals of the 138th annual Boylston Speaking Contest last night. Lee's selection came from Hard Times by Charles Dickens, and Trent presented "The Trial of Jabez Stone" from The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet...
Regular Swarms. Such tactics earned the Society of Jesus more enemies in high places than friends. They were called "all things to all men" and taxed with the charge that they hold, in effect, that a good end justifies the use of a less good means; to this day Webster defines "Jesuitic" as "designing; crafty; as, a Jesuitical trick." The Jesuits have as persistently and meticulously fought the charge and elucidated the oft-small but decisive difference between unprincipled expediency and principled pragmatism. The order has suffered reverses and reprisals. In 1773, under political pressure from the courts of Spain...