Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall 75-year-old Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones, retired Haverford College philosophy professor, is a great & good member of a great U. S. sect, the Society of Friends. Two decades ago Quaker Jones helped found the organization he chairmans today-the American Friends Service Committee, universally respected for its good works...
...were beginning to gain credence, there was no medial school in the U. S. worthy of the name. American students went abroad to do research, learn surgical and laboratory technique. In 1883 Daniel Coit Gilman, head of Johns Hopkins University, heartened by a $3,228,000 bequest from the Quaker founder of the school, began scouting for distinguished professors who would form the nucleus of a great U. S. medical faculty...
...Troyanovsky insisted that she and her husband be near their promising, 15-year-old son Oleg. A freshman last year at the Quaker Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, young Oleg matriculated this fall in the University of Moscow. When Father Troyanovsky sailed for Europe three months ago he confided that had Son Oleg chosen to become a doctor or an engineer he could have continued his U. S. education. When he decided to become a writer, however, Soviet schooling was prescribed...
...Students in Friends (Quaker) colleges are least conservative, Catholic students by far the most reactionary. State universities are in the middle, but they have more liberalizing influence than any other type of college...
...father's name was Elijah, and his mother's name was Eunice, and he was born at Westchester Landing on the Bronx River in New York in 1807. His Quaker parents christened him Ezra...