Raleigh Times
The trustees of Wake Forest College have an undisputed right to refuse admittance to Tom Jimison. Tom—and let’s get this said and over with as quickly as possible—has acquired a reputation just a bit ripe for the palate of the guardians of youth whom it is determined to submit to no disturbing influences. He is something of a social agitator, has repeatedly thumbed his nose at the established order in church and state, was LaFollette elector, ran with the Socialists at Winston-Salem and was their candidate for mayor of that community, quite the Methodist ministry in favor of a labor paper at Charlotte and was convicted and fined for transporting liquor, offered to make amends by yielding himself to the law and finally decided to secure license to practice the same in North Carolina. At Wake Forest last summer he was discovered by officers in the presence of liquor which in the municipal court was proved to be of somebody else’s providing.
We trust that is the last time we shall ever feel called upon to refer to Tom’s past shortcomings. He has gone to Chapel Hill and as a citizen of the State applied for admission to the University Law School, which has properly been opened unto him. It is to be hoped that he will benefit from his associations at the University, which in turn should profit from association with him.
He can pass the examination for law license as easily from one school as another. He had no claim on the Baptist denomination; he has the same claim upon the University as any other citizen of the State.
He couldn’t be a martyr on the campus at Chapel Hill if he wanted to—let’s concede that he exhibits no such desire—and it is now squarely up to him.
And here’s wishing him luck. With one of the brightest minds in the commonwealth, he ought to add something to the State’s mental content.
From page 3 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, September 26, 1925
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