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Seniors At Howard SuspendedFor Hand In All-night-partyTotal Now Three Boys, Three Girls Under Punishment for Participating in “Backbiters Party, February 22.Washington, D. C.—Walter Harmon, senior medical student in Howard University, was indefinitely suspended last Thursday by the medical school faculty because of hisconnection with a party on February 22, which resulted in three girls of the college remaining out of the Miner hall dormitory all night.The girls who remained out all night were suspended by Dean Lucy D. Slowe on February 23, after the preceptress had reported that they had failed to spend the night in Min-■v.er hall.Hoys Suspended.The suspended girls are Miss Thelma Louise Dean of Baltimore, Md., Miss Ruth Victoria Royster of Brockton, Mass., the home tow'n of President J. Stanley Durkee and Miss Edna Dorothy Harper of Manassas, Va. One of the girls was a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.Following the action of the dean of women, the two college boys who attended the party with the “co-eds”CONTRACT AWARDED PEOPLES BUILDING CO.Mr. F. Peoples of the F. Peoples Home Building Co., Minneapolis, was awarded the contract to build a $10,-000 home for a race man, on Iglehart near Lexington Ave., St. Paul. This will be one of the finest homes among the race in the Twin Cities.law student, the law school faculty decided not to suspend him. He was, however, ordered to apologize to the dean of women for his conduct, to remain off the “hill” for the remainder of this school year, and given a verbal reprimand. The fact that French accompanied a young lady to the “Backbiters” party who was not a student, although she was a guest in Miner Hall from New York, lessened his punishment.Harmon Action Late.The medical school faculty took no action in the case of Walter Harmon until after an expose had been madein the newspapers of a double standard of discipline as between professional and non-professional school students. Last Thursday evening he was indefinitely suspended. Harmon is said to be a married student.AppnrHino In rennrlo
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The Saint Paul Echo
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Sat, Apr 03, 1926
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