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Today Bethune-Cookman* is a four-year, co-ed college-with 450 students and an $800,000 campus. The emphasis is still on vocational training. Like Booker T. Washington, President Emeritus Bethune thinks Negro education's first job is to teach job skills to Negroes. (Most of Bethune-Cookman's 2,350 graduates are teachers...
...most distinguished educators in the U. S. is Mary McLeod Bethune, "The Booker T. Washington of Florida," who once taught five little black girls in a cabin on a Florida dump and is now president of Daytona Beach's $800,000 co-educational Bethune-Cookman College. Since she turned up in Washington as director of the Division of Negro Affairs in Aubrey Williams' National Youth Administration, Mrs. Bethune has also won recognition as one of her race's most adroit politicians...
...Yale Saturday, the Crimson Varsity racquetmen lost to a strong Eli team 5 to 4. Blake, Appleton, Rousmaniere, and Easton all won their matches for the Crimson. In the best match of the afternoon, Cookman, Eli captain, defeated Sulloway in four games...
Others who survived the opening matches were George Cookman of Yale, Bernard Ridger of Princeton and Leroy Lewis of the University of Pennsylvania...
Crimson squash captain Alvah W. Sulloway '38 Friday was defeated by George Cookman of Yale for the third annual intercollegiate squash racquets tournament championship held last week at the University Club in New York. Cookman won, 9-15, 15-11, 12-15, 16-15, 17-15. Both Sulloway and Cookman triumphed in the semi-finals held Thursday. At that time Sulloway had little difficulty in winning his match, but Cookman was hard pressed. Both captains were endeavoring to duplicate the feats of their predecessors who have won the cup the last two years...