Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome Joey Binns is an old hand at hotel trouble shooting. Born of Quaker parents in Winona, Ohio, he de cided at ten to become a hotel man, got his first job as a storeroom boy. As man ager of Stevens, he draws down $25,000 a year (plus maintenance). No lover of city life, Binns camouflages the door of his suite in the Stevens to look like that of an ivy-covered cottage...
...wish to take this opportunity to clarify the position of the Student Union regarding summers work camps for the youth of America. Our campaign against work camps is in no way directed against the Quaker camps of others similar to them already established on a purely voluntary cooperative basis. These camps have done a real service to America by there rehabilitation work. However, at the present time there is grave danger that the original purpose and nature of these camps may be perverted. There is alarming evidence indicating that the campaign for local voluntary different plan for American students; evidence...
Affiliation of the Harvard Movement, possessing its own camp and projects, with a group like the Quaker or Work Camps for America gained the Widest support. These two organizations, similar in their general construction and purposes, have formed summer work camps throughout the country...
...Quaker program, however, stresses a long working...
...Harvard there comes, then, an opportunity. The University where William James once taught can pay him tribute, by fostering one of these work-camps and its "moral equivalent of war": raising money to start a venture patterned after the voluntary experiments of the Quaker and Work-Camps for America variety, and enrolling a number of undergraduates in the camp. With the backing of Phillips Brooks House, of the Student Council, and of other groups in the Yard, the project should readily succeed, for it is not a large sum which is needed. Such a camp would be, in the realest...