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Dr. John B. Watson, 72, Noted Educator, Dies By the Associated Press. PINE BLUFF, Ark., Dec. 7.-Dr. John Brown Watson, 72, president of the Arkansas A. M. & N. College here since 1928 and one of the South's outstanding colored educators, died at his home here last night following a long illness. A native of Smith County, Tex., Dr. Watson attended Colgate, Brown, Chicago and Cornell Universities, receiving, his LL. D. from Morehouse College, Atlanta, where he taught from 1904-1909. He was secretary of a national student committee at Atlanta from 1909-1917 and served as receiver for the Atlanta State Savings Bank from 1921-23. Recently he was appointed a member of the Nobel Prize Advisory Committee. Before coming to Arkansas he served as president of Leland College, Baker, La.