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Other leading colleges with entries in the matches are Yale, McGill, Toronto, Army, Princeton, and Penn. Nevertheless, Haverford's number one man, "Mat" Matier, may be the man to beat, since he captured this Christmas' individuals tourney in New York...
...term and a new life, under a new principal. The job of restoring S.A.S to its prewar heights had fallen to Peking-born Thomas C. Gibb, 36, son and grandson of U.S. missionaries, who taught English there before Pearl Harbor, has since been the acting dean of Haverford College. Finding a student body is the least of Gibb's worries. His worst headaches: locating books, desks and beds in supply-shy China; drumming up a faculty...
Francis Barton Gummere, Haverford's English scholar (remembered by Christopher Morley): "As far as the battle of learning goes, we were pacifists-conscientious objectors. . . . It was his way to pretend that we knew far more than we did; so with perfect courtesy and gravity, he would ask our opinion on some matter of which we knew next to nothing; and we knew it was only his exquisiteness of good manners that impelled the habit. . . . To fail him in some task [became] the one thing most abhorrent in dealing with such a man-a discourtesy...
Although "it cannot be claimed that the wheat saved by Harvard alone will be sent abroad," a statement prepared by the Committee to be distributed with the ballot declares that the saving by Harvard, "along with the action of other colleges--notably Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Haverford, Oberlin, Swarthmore, and Radcliffe--as part of a general program will mean less demand on domestic grain markets. This in turn will result in larger supplies available for transshipment abroad...
...itself on record was a group prodded by members of the frankly pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation. Sixty religious and educational leaders (including Professor Walter Russell Bowie of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Professor Henry J. Cadbury of the Harvard Divinity School and Professor Rufus M. Jones of Quaker Haverford College) signed a statement describing U.S. raids on Japan as "large-scale massacre ... of defenseless women and children . . . [which] cannot be so 'effective' in military terms as to justify itself in terms of humanity and the future peace of the world. . . . The Japanese are not all entirely evil...