Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worsted in similar colors. Only a derby may be worn with it, in blue, grey or brown. But, warns the committee, "Al Smith's turn on the New Deal . . . has made the brown derby very unpopular.'' Champagne coats, designed like the dinner jackets, come in blue, quaker grey, bisque, green and champagne, may be worn with black welt-seamed trousers...
Outplayed from the beginning to the end of the contest, the Crimson basketball team suffered a 33-21 defeat at the hands of Swarthmore's aggregation Saturday night at Swarthmore. Harvard's big team was behind all the game, and never threatened the Quaker's lead...
When scientists begin writing like preachers and preachers begin talking like scientists, the great battle of God and Nature is all but over. Famed for his piety is Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, son of a Presbyterian minister. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington is a devout, creedless Quaker. Physicist Arthur Holly Compton has been advancing towards God more slowly although his father, too, is a Presbyterian minister. Now writing a book about his beliefs, the University of Chicago professor expounded some of them last week in an interview with Philip Kinsley of the Chicago Tribune. Said Scientist Compton...
However much he mixed in Iowa politics, President Jessup, a good Methodist with Quaker upbringing, has always kept clear of campus squabbles. He reads widely and quickly, keeps two secretaries on the run, lets up only for fishing trips...
...years ago introduced cricket, still the favorite spring sport. Haverford calls freshmen "Rhinies" (as does Lawrenceville School). An annual custom is dressing in odd costumes for the last Ethics lecture of the year by Professor Rufus Matthew Jones, Haverford's most respected and oldest active teacher, 'Quaker theologian and member of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry. The costume custom was nearly abandoned when a student appeared on a Kiddie Kar in long woolen underwear as Lady Godiva. Among Haverford's younger teachers are Leslie Hotson who solved the mystery of Christopher Marlowe's death...