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where he received his Ph.D. in 1927, he had undertaken postdoctoral studies at
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Webster Jones (1899-1975), of Emerson, Nebraska was a noted economist and university president, a man of deep insight and broad educational philosophy. He spent his boyhood and youth near Portland, Oregon. A graduate of Reed College and the Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government,
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Webster Jones, a former president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and, earlier, president of Rutgers University, died yesterday of pneumonia in a hospital in Sarasota, Fla., where he lived. He was 76 years
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