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Penn is 4-3 overall so far. The Quaker's only Ivy game was against Yale last week. The Elis played a strong game to set back Penn in a close contest, 10-7. Mark Boeing has been the top scorer for coach Ave Blake's team...
...title bout, Henry faced a slugger from Philadelphia who had already acquired a name and a reputation as the "Quaker City Blacksmith." During the pre-bout weigh-in, the pride of Philly warned Henry, "Don't nobody mess with the Quaker City Blacksmith," but later Henry decided to mess and a hard right to the stomach...
...Friends, and John Bunyan (Aug. 31), the Puritan author of The Pilgrim's Progress. All of them had their problems with the Church of England. John Wesley, himself an ordained Anglican priest, broke with the church when it refused to recognize his movement, and ordained his own ministers. Quaker Fox and his flock were hounded by church authorities for much of their lives. Bunyan spent twelve years in prison for preaching without a license...
Wohl scored 16 points in the first half as Penn took a 38-31 lead, but Jay Noble--Starting his first game for Harvard--caught up with the Quaker's moves after intermission and held him to six points in the second half...
...Scholarships; of a heart attack; in his office on the eighth day of an Admissions Office sit-in by militant black students. A Harvard man ('38) and Rhodes Scholar himself, Smith was one of the country's youngest college presidents when he assumed office at the small, Quaker-founded liberal arts school. A determinedly academic president, he shunned the role of fund raiser to concentrate on improving the quality of Swarthmore's faculty and curriculum. When 20 black students staged the current sit-in to dramatize their demands for greater black enrollment and a black studies program...