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Occasionally reporters thought they saw the man that Wallace would like to be. Just outside Oskaloosa, Wallace stopped at small, Quaker-run William Penn College, spoke to its 250 students in the white, high-ceilinged chapel. With the bright Iowa sunlight streaming through the windows, Wallace talked earnestly and simply. Said he: "The guiding principles of the Quaker faith are still the most practical guide to ordinary living." Afterward, he sat under a tree on the lawn, chatted with undergraduates...
...absolutely and eternally morally wrong, and utterly and flatly incompatible with the way of life Christ has revealed and Christianity has established." Thus writes Rufus Jones, famed Quaker patriarch, in the introduction to his collection of essays on Christian pacifism, published last week. Few of the eleven contributors to The Church, the Gospel and War (Harper; $2) are so downright. But all of them are sure that Christians should be pacifists...
Philadelphia will take on a crimson hue the week-end of May 14-16, when alumni from all over the nation converge on the Quaker City for the 1948 meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs...
Dresser said last night that he had been drinking and had lost his way, but denied trying to break in. His own lodgings at the Cambridge Quaker House are just a few doors away from the Frost dwelling...
...Christianity and Civilization"; published by the Quaker center, Pendle Hill...