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...fitting motto for Swarthmore College near Philadelphia would be the exhortation that a Quaker math professor used to give her students: "Use thy gumption." Though it seems pathetically small (547 men, 447 women), Swarthmore has such gumptious devotion to excellence that some awed academics call it the No. 1 college in the U.S. However impious this may appear to Yale or Harvard, hundreds of the country's brightest youngsters have reason to agree. Of 2,000 applicants in a typical year, Swarthmore enrolls only about 260-making it one of the toughest colleges in the U.S. to get into...
Swarthmore,* which last week began celebrating its centennial year, was founded by the liberal Hicksite Quakers to combat "a dead level of mediocrity in the education of our children." For a while it was best known as "the Quaker matchbox," a 300-acre playground for sowing Quaker oats and finding Quaker mates. But ever since the 1920s, when pioneering President Frank Aydelotte set the matchbox on intellectual fire, Swarthmoreans have won all sorts of academic honors...
...wife and his baby to a $59-a-month apartment ten blocks away. Later on, he moved his family to Dallas, where he got another job, this time in a photoengraving plant. Last February he and Marina met Ruth Paine, 31, mother of two children and an energetic Quaker with a deep interest in furthering U.S.Soviet relations. Ruth wanted to learn Russian, and Marina helped her. The two women became close friends...
Pennsylvania's 230-pound heavyweight Bruce Jacobsohn decisioned sophomore Tack Chace 10-1 in the final match Saturday to give the Quaker wrestlers...
...best wrestlers in the Ivy League. 123-pounder Rich Sofman is unbeaten for the year, and holds a decision over Cornell's Neal Orr (Orr pinned the Crimson's Mike King, who could be in for a rough afternoon). At heavyweight, 230-pound Bruce Jacobsohn has been a Quaker standout for three years...