Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone who loves a parade the military spectacle has the spit and polish, precision, pomp and pageantry that only the British can bring off-an act that will still be burnished bright when the Beatles are balding, a martial display that could convert a Quaker. The near capacity opener in New York last week marked the sixth stop on a tour that would take in 33 more U.S. cities in the next nine weeks...
They show that to a pioneering people the wilderness originally represented a hostile world to be tamed, tilled and harvested. What appealed first were "the sightes," hazardous gorges, natural rock arches, the torrents of the Niagara a scene naively and delightfully captured by the Quaker sign painter Edward Hicks. But with leisure there came a more open sky, sophisticated and view. "Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature's' teachings." Poet William Cullen Bryant exhorted the painters...
Between the Farm Bureau on the right and the Farmers Union on the left stands the granddaddy of all U.S. farm organizations, the 98-year-old National Grange, with 800,000 members. Master of the Grange is Indiana-born Herschel D. Newsom, 65, a roly-poly Quaker and lifelong Republican, who believes that "government has a proper role in agriculture...
Challenging this notion is small (1,050 students), Quaker-founded Earlham College in Richmond, Ind. Its pres ident, Landrum Boiling, observes that "our justification for existence and for charging the relatively high fees we do must be that we do a superb job of teaching." Toward that end, Earlham got a $20,000 grant from the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, under which Earlham teachers can invite experts in their fields to sit in their classrooms, observe their techniques and assess their abilities...
Benjamin and Kileff won the number three doubles over Art Bellas and Howard Coonley in three sets to even the doubles ETAOINETAOIN ETAO IN I N score at 4-4. In the number two doubles, Crimson sophomores Davis and Dick Appleby made a grand effort taking the Unfortunately, the Quaker pair grabbed first set, 6-2, against George and Brown, the second set 6-2, but it looked like Harvard might prevail when Appleby and Davis broke Brown's service at the start of the third set. Penn, however, broke back twice, and won the deciding...