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Movement Afoot To Keep Classics Department At Howard University – Free Press of Jacksonville

WASHINGTON — As the 2020–21 school year winds down, a band of Howard University students, alumni and professors hopes to reverse its decision to shutter its classics department, possibly by finding funding to endow the [...]

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