Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Quaker William Penn arrived in Philadelphia to begin his "holy experiment" in government, he made a peace treaty with his Indian neighbors and planned to get along without an army or navy. His colony did so for 73 years, until its Quaker-dominated legislature voted funds in 1755 for the French & Indian War. But then and later, Quakers found the U.S. more hospitable than most countries to their creed.* This week, for the first time in history, a group of Quakers were planning to leave the U.S. because of their peace-loving convictions...
...Christendom, the moment in which lightning struck Martin Luther was almost as crucial as the episode of the Damascus road. In Here I Stand (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $4.75), a new biography of the founder of the Reformation in Germany, Roland H. Bainton, a Quaker and a Yale professor of church history, carefully details the character and extent of the great crisis that was set in motion that day. Within 13 tumultuous years the Luther energy had blasted Christianity out of its late-medieval lethargy, ripped the universal church to sectarian shreds, created the Protestant movement and set its main direction...
...over the world were presented one day last week to a shy-looking, silver-haired man as he stood before a gathering on the Main Line campus of Pennsylvania's Haverford College. There some 600 Friends and friends of Friends gathered for a day of speechmaking, picnicking and Quaker fellowship to honor Clarence Evan Pickett, 65, retiring as executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee...
Just as the Service Committee has come to symbolize Quakerism to many non-Quakers, hardworking, articulate Secretary Pickett has come to personify the Service Committee. Farm-raised and Quaker-educated (William Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa), Pickett spent World War I leading Friends' meetings, defending conscientious objectors and getting the side of his house painted yellow for his pacifist pains. In 1923 he joined the faculty of Earlham College at Richmond, Ind., where his favorite course was a study of the application of religion and ethics to current social problems...
Penn scored twice in the bottom of the first, and went ahead with another pair is the third These four, and all the other Quaker runs, were unearned, as the Crimson committed eight errors...