Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since last spring the little Quaker farming town of West Branch, Iowa (pop. 769) had been getting ready for the 80th birthday of its famous son. The Lions International club pushed a campaign to get the town's modest homes gleaming with new paint, and front yards trimmed to the quick. Work was rushed on the new elementary school so that the famous guest could dedicate it. The night before the big day, the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church stored gallons of pickled beets and great bowls of applesauce in the demonstration refrigerators...
This spring, the graduating class of small (500 students), Quaker-founded Haverford College, outside Philadelphia, decided that the hit-and-run Commencement speaker was too far removed from his audience. They invited their man to spend a week on the campus, living and arguing with undergraduates. They picked a lively companion: Robert Maynard Hutchins, brisk but aging (55) boy wonder of U.S. higher education, onetime chancellor of the University of Chicago, now president of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic...
...Questions. Critic Hutchins was impressed by what he found at Haverford, tried in vain to get students to complain about the teaching. "If I were ever a college president again," he declared, "I'd try to run it on Quaker principles." His week's companions were not unanimously impressed by Hutchins. One observation: "[He] is an administrator . . . not an educational philosopher." Explained a senior: "Some of the class expected more than they got." But most agreed that Hutchins was no cautious pedant: "He's a name-dropper but not a punch-puller...
...Medical Center) collected a handful of other cases showing most of Miriam's symptoms. The one that appeared invariably was the absence or extreme scarcity of tears while crying. Another thing the doctors noted: all the children so afflicted were of Jewish parentage. (The first proved exception, a Quaker child, was reported only last week...
...Runaway Puritan." After catching her in flagrante delicto in the doll house, Stephen Monk walks out on his wife Jane and into an oncoming truck. While he convalesces at the home of his Quaker foster-aunt outside Philadelphia, his whole life flashbacks before his eyes...