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Even into the 1960s, the Jesuit seminarians at Maryland's Woodstock College seldom left the leafy campus overlooking the Patapsco River Valley. They rose at 5:30 a.m. to the clang of a seminary bell, attended compulsory early Mass, skittered around the campus in long black cassocks. They ate their meals silently while a prefect read from learned books. But neither its cloistered atmosphere nor its age (founded in 1869, it was the oldest Jesuit theologate in the U.S.) prevented Woodstock from being the nation's most dynamic institution of Roman Catholic theology...
Bias. In Baltimore, Judge Herbert Franklin listened to Paul Upperman's admission that he jumped into the Patapsco River from a 40-ft. bridge to win a $5 bet, dismissed the disorderly-conduct charge with the comment: "I never had the nerve to do it myself...
...Recently I was coming up the Patapsco River toward Baltimore. The time-at the twilight's last gleaming. My eyes could be turned in only one direction-toward Fort McHenry to see that our flag was still there. It was not. At the classic flagpole spot where at noon 'the broad stripes and bright stars o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming,' there was nothing but the dim line of a naked pole. . . . That unflagged pole was one of the bitterest disappointments of my life...
...Soon again," he wrote, "I hope to be coming up the Patapsco at midnight. There will be a Chesapeake blizzard. Visibility will be low. But gloriously floodlighted on Fort McHenry will be the driving Star-Spangled Banner, giving proof to the world that our flag is always there...
...charge of the Friends' camps, as their director of Civilian Public Service, is grey-haired, robust Quaker Thomas Elsa Jones, who in December took a year's leave from his presidency of Fisk University. Besides Patapsco, he will supervise the Friends' camp for C. O.s already operating at Cooperstown, N. Y., others soon to open in California, Indiana, Ohio. Mennonites will also establish their camps at Colorado Springs, Grottoes, Va. and Bluffton, Ind., and the Church of the Brethren will start camps at Onekama, Wis. and Lagro, Ind. The three sects plan to open joint camps later...