A happyland for white-collared U. S. Negroes is a collection of buildings grouped around a grassy campus on the northwest outskirts of Washington, D. C. Howard University has many white friends as well: the Julius Rosenwald Fund and the General Education Board; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who gave it nearly $5,000,000 in PWA grants for buildings and turned up last October to dedicate its new chemistry building; Eleanor Roosevelt, who has dropped in at Howard faculty meetings. Last week Howard's friends were shocked to hear that its 1,950 blackamoor students were to a man out...
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