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Last week's meeting in Philadelphia offered an extraordinary view of this extraordinary church. The only Quaker President of the U. S., Herbert Hoover, never an active churchman, was absent but many another famed Quaker was present. Quartered at two Quaker colleges Haverford and Swarthmore, both in Philadelphia's environs, the Friends met daily in Swarthmore's roomy Field House and its towering limestone chapel. Foreign delegates soon learned that the chapel was given by Philadelphia's rich Quaker Clothier family, while the other-half of the ownership of the city's famed department store...
...redhaired, earnest, optimistic, so retiring that no newspaper has ever published a picture of him, President Park lives simply in suburban Haverford, two miles from his archenemy, George Earle. He is a pillar in the National Association of Food Chains, which has been creating an astonishing reserve of good will for its members by organizing selling drives to relieve farm surpluses. Last year it started off with a nation-wide campaign in canned peaches, cleaned up the glut in short order. When last year's Drought flooded the market with cattle that could no longer be fed, the chains...
...that only the little University of Durham would accept. Oxford, which is currently campaigning for a $5,000,000 endowment, tried to decide which course would offend fewer contributors, finally refused. Reaching the U. S., the invitation to send a delegate was promptly accepted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Haverford, Ohio State, University of Alabama, Wittenberg College, University of Idaho. It was promptly refused by Dartmouth, Carnegie Institute of Technology, the Universities of Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire and the College of the City of New York. Princeton, which like Gottingen was chartered by George II, Elector of Hanover and King...
Coach Harman is a onetime University of Pittsburgh footballer, onetime coach at Haverford and the University of the South, now under a new three-year contract at Pennsylvania because his last season was so successful. His team talk, continually revised, shows Biblical as well as football sense. Excerpts...
...Kelly Barton 18 160 6.1 Groton Kennedy, John F. 19 165 6. Choate Maguire, Albert 20 175 5.11 Hebron (Worcester) MacIssac, Frederick M. 18 160 6.2 Moses Brown Murphy. Vincent L. 18 170 6. Brooklyn Friends Parrot, Donald G. 19 165 5.11 Middlesex Perry, Joseph H. 18 157 6. Haverford Richardson, Thomas M. 18 140 5.10 Rutherford High Roosevelt, Daniel S. 19 178 6.2 St. Paul's Scofield, Francis W. 17 155 5.11 Country Day Seamans, Robert C. Jr. 17 165 6.2 Lenox Stewart, John G. 17 165 6.1 Andover Williams, Calvin 17 180 6.1 Hempstead High Winslow, Warren...