Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lightweight division has been complicated during the past, few days by radical changes in the boatings, in an attempt to develop a powerful unit to row in the Henley regatta at the end of the week. The third University crew will entrain with the 150's for the Quaker City tomorrow...
...Jersey's convenient laws. The Steelmen ate a luncheon provided by the Lackawanna railroad, and ratified a plan submitted by Mr. Taylor providing for compulsory retirement of all Steel's executives at a certain age. Chairman Taylor, a deeply religious man (like President Hoover he is a Quaker), chose as this age the Bible's three-score years and ten. In addition, the plan allowed for voluntary retirement at 65. Stockholders also heard optimistic talk about improving business conditions, of a reasonably good year even at present Steel prices if a large volume of production could...
...afternoon on Franklin Field, at the University of Pennsylvania, when Coach E. L. Farrell will send two quartets into action in the sprint medley and distance medley relays, against a field including the strongest Eastern track teams, gathered for the first test of the season at the 37th annual Quaker City relay carnival. Record will compete in the 120-yard high hurdles...
Haverford College, in Pennsylvania, the oldest of the American Quaker colleges, is preparing to celebrate its centenary, and the addresses made at its convocation ceremonies are significant of a trend among American educators. "The country needs an exhibit of quality rather than quantity in education," said President Comfort, announcing a new program which will give every older student the individual attention hitherto reserved for honors students, and the address of President Lowell of Harvard echoed the thought...
...Virgin Islands, whither President Hoover was to go this week, got a new civil governor last week. The little minesweeper Grebe carried Dr. Paul M. Pearson, like the President a Quaker, into the harbor of St. Thomas while a Marine detachment shot off a 17-gun salute. The black population with its 5% sprinkling of whites massed in Emancipation Park to watch Governor Pearson take the oath of office, hear his inaugural address. They were all in good humor because the ceremony marked the transfer of their government from the Navy under Capt. Waldo Evans to the Department...