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...obstacle which Penn must overcome if it is to heat Princeton is an injury problem. Phil Procacci, the Quaker's third quarterback who filled in after the first two were injured, is out of the lineup indefinitely with a broken jaw. There is a possibility, however, that second-stringer Mike Hickok will return to play. There are a score of other injuries...
...Quaker coach Jim Tupenny calls the bearded Harvard team "a disgrace to the Ivy League." It appears to be a natural rivalry. The old do-or-die-for-State school versus athletic nonchalance...
THEODORE R. SIZER, Dean of the Grad. School of Education, led yesterday's morning prayers in Memorial Church in the form of a Quaker meeting. Sizer spent the rest of the day following his regular office schedule...
...must obey God rather than men"), the commentary notes, inspired Martin Luther's famous refusal to recant-"to go against conscience is neither right nor safe"-as well as the defiance of Nazism by Germany's Confessing Church. Some examples of heroism are poignant: Quaker John Woolman, dying of smallpox, told his friends to "rejoice evermore, and in everything give thanks." Then he added, "This is sometimes hard to come...
Though Pearson thrived on the vitriol in his professional life, in his private life he was a pleasant and gentle man, a Quaker with a sense of humor. For his epitaph, he said he would prefer not a remembrance of his fame as an enemy of rascals but of his less well-known role as the organizer of the Friendship Train, which sent $40 million worth of food to postwar France and Italy in 1947, and as the rebuilder of a Tennessee high school that was bombed...