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FS: And when it came time that she had to go -- there were more than 500 students and faculty of Japanese ancestry on the campus at that time, and the president named a committee, which I was on, to find, transfer to other colleges so that they would not have to go to the relocation centers. I then visited, on university faculty expense, about a hundred different schools and colleges outside the restricted zone -- that is, from Spokane, east -- to ask them if they would take these students. Most of 'em were very good students. Only three colleges said, "No." One of 'em, surprisingly, was Princeton University. I don't remember their excuse. Another one is a religious college in Idaho... Boise, I think, who said they would be glad to have them, but the sentiment of the community was such that they wouldn't be able to protect them, and so they thought they shouldn't take them. I've forgotten what the other school was, but all the ten Quaker colleges, eight outside the restricted zone, were glad to have them.

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