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...QUAKER CHILDHOOD: 1871-1888-Helen Thomas Flexner-Yale University Press...
...sense of humor, and the unqualified approval of two men who have none-Joseph Newton Pew Jr., vice president of Sun Oil Co., who has conducted a bitter, open-purse, one-family crusade against the New Deal for seven years, and thee-saying Quaker Joseph Ridgway Grundy, 77, proud since the turn of the century of his title as King of Lobbyists...
From a Massachusetts Quaker family 300 years old came Burt Wheeler, on Feb. 27, 1882. From the start he was on the scramble. Out of Michigan Law School in 1905, he went west, there heard the fabulous tales of attorneys' fees in Butte, Mont., where F. Augustus Heinze, copper baron, and Amalgamated Copper Co. (the "Standard Oil crowd") were at war for control of "the richest hill on earth." But by the time young Wheeler settled in Butte the fight was over and the fees had fled. He became a law clerk, then hung out his own shingle...
Nestled in the heart of Philadelphia's "Main Line," Haverford is the oldest U. S. Quaker college - 31 years older than near by Swarthmore, but only half as big (313 undergraduates, 63 professors...
...Uncle" is the undergraduate monicker for Haverford presidents. Present uncle is genial, cricket-playing William Wistar ("Uncle Billy") Comfort, highbrowed classicist and devout Quaker, who can, with equal facility, trace a word to its Sanskrit root and a piece of undergraduate mischief to its only begetter. Haverford graduate (1894) and son of a graduate, in his 23-year presidency he has doubled the college's teaching staff and endowment ($4,500,000), kept the student body and intercollegiate athletics* down. Says he: ". . . The country needs an exhibit of quality, rather than quantity in education...