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Oldest of ten children, Isaac was born in Philadelphia in 1827, went to a Quaker school and Haverford College, was apprenticed to a dry-goods merchant, later to a mapmaker. Finding his "worldly spirit" in collision with the piety of his father, he struck out on his own, worked as a farmhand, then started west with a companion, bumming rides on primitive trains, stealing poultry, taking up with a drunken canal boatman...
After his expedition to Armenia Lake will continue to live at Haverford, Pennsylvania, where he will write books and edit a magazine with his wife. At present Lake commutes by air to his home over the weekends...
Your account of the Conference at Haverford and Swarthmore is sympathetic, lucid, and comprehensive. My brother, who has just come from the Conference, is much impressed by the accuracy of your report in the main...
...McKee, John 16 180 5.9 Newtown High New York City MacMaster, Robert E. 17 185 6.1 Boston Latin West Roxbury Marshall, Malcolm 17 175 6.2 Milton Academy Boston Peabody, Homer D. Jr. 17 175 6.3 San Diego High San Diego, Calif. Perkins, Charles C. Jr. 20 180 6. Haverford Bryn Mawr, Pa. Rumsey, Douglas 18 160 6. St. Mark's Buffalo, N. Y. Silva, Francis E. Jr. 17 150 5.11 Boston Latin Boston Tewksbury, Theodore L. Jr. 19 194 6. Noble & Greenough West Newton Underwood, William W. 20 180 6. Worcester Academy Yonkers, N. Y. Warshaw, Mark...
Chairman of the Conference was one of the world's most respected Quakers, Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford. Author of 40 books, longtime philosophy professor, Quaker Jones represents the broadening and liberalizing of Quaker thought which, without cooling its emotional nature, has kept the sect its self-respect. Dr. Jones, 74, is tall, pink-cheeked, white-crested, talks with the crisp accent of his native South China, Me.,, of whose Yearly Meeting he is still a member. He still lives on Haverford's cricket green, a professor emeritus, likes to watch from his window the sport which...