Spring Hill College, a 126-year-old Jesuit institution in Mobile, Ala., this week graduated a Negro for the first time in its history. The graduate: Mrs. Fannie Motley, 30, a transfer student from the Alabama State College for Negroes.
In 1951, Party-Lining Mathematics Professor Dirk J. Struik was suspended from Massachusetts Institute of Technology after being indicted for advocating the violent overthrow of the governments of the U.S. and Massachusetts (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951). When Struik's indictment was quashed last week as a result of the Supreme Court decision superseding state jurisdiction over sedition charges, M.I.T. promptly reinstated him. Explained an M.I.T....
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