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...election year, and the Class of '32 soon became embroiled in the not-too-enthusiastic politicking for a soft-spoken Quaker from California or a sidewalks-of-New-York-spoken Catholic from the Bowery. There were other suggestions offered; a senior from Hollis under the cryptic cognomen of "Number Ten" announced the formation of a King George-for-President Party, one of whose platform planks was to exchange Memorial Hall for the Houses of Parliament. The gargoyles growled...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Class of '32: First Two Years | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...days after the bomb dropped, Harold Steele, the bewildered, bespectacled Quaker chicken farmer from the west of England who volunteered to face radioactive death in the area as a protest, arrived unheralded in Tokyo to learn from reporters that the blast had already gone-off. "I'm greatly disappointed," he said. "This trip has cost me my entire life savings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bomb Away | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...Crimson will fly to Philadelphia today, where Bob McGinnis will pitch against a Quaker squad that has failed to win in two EIBL games...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Crimson Ties B.C., 0-0 | 5/15/1957 | See Source »

...Draper sent the Crimson off to an early lead with a shot into the Quaker nets only 45 seconds after play began. Fred Felse of the Quakers evened the score three minutes later, but midway through the period, Mike Shaw, assisted by Jerry Cotter, tallied the first of his four goals to put the varsity ahead for the rest of the afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Varsity Downs Penn, 7-3 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

Jerry Pyle and Mallonee combined to produce perhaps the best play of the afternoon when, in the final period, Mallonee sent a high pass from behind the Quaker goal to Pyle, all in one motion, caught the ball and drove it low and hard past goalie Adamson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Varsity Downs Penn, 7-3 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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