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National Affairs: President Simms

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The Sophomore Class of the Boston University School of Religious Education and Social Service last week established a precedent by choosing as president Edward P. Simms, Negro.

Mr. Simms’s great-grandfather was the first New England Negro minister, his father served three years on the Boston City council, his mother taught in the Boston Public Schools.

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