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Scope and Contents In a letter to a donor, Guy D. Goff, on 25 Feb. 1945, Earl Gregg Swem supported Marilyn Kaemmerle’s dismissal from the Flat Hat for her editorial "Lincoln's job half-done" in which Kaemmerle had advocated the complete integration of African Americans into William and Mary and the ability of intermarriage between African Americans and whites, which was outlawed in Virginia until 1967. Swem spoke in favor of administrators being in charge of “supervision of what goes into this college...