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Tall 75-year-old Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones, retired Haverford College philosophy professor, is a great & good member of a great U. S. sect, the Society of Friends. Two decades ago Quaker Jones helped found the organization he chairmans today-the American Friends Service Committee, universally respected for its good works...
Mindful of German dislike of outside interference, they kept mum about their plans. At least two newspapers, the New York Times and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, knew what the three Friends were about, and kept mum too. But the Philadelphia Record got wind of the story, telephoned numerous Philadelphia Quakers, finally got hold of Quaker Jones on the Queen Mary. Despite his pleas, the Record splashed the story on its front page last week...
Philadelphia Friends called the publicity "tragic" and, in view of the fact that the Record's Publisher Julius David Stern is a Jew, ''the worst crime in newspaper history." Their concern was justified when, on the day the Quaker delegation reached Berlin, Dr. Goebbels' organ Der Angriff sniggered: "We hope they will make themselves known. . . . Then we will know, you see, when to begin to quake-quake duly before the Quakers...
...were beginning to gain credence, there was no medial school in the U. S. worthy of the name. American students went abroad to do research, learn surgical and laboratory technique. In 1883 Daniel Coit Gilman, head of Johns Hopkins University, heartened by a $3,228,000 bequest from the Quaker founder of the school, began scouting for distinguished professors who would form the nucleus of a great U. S. medical faculty...
...Troyanovsky insisted that she and her husband be near their promising, 15-year-old son Oleg. A freshman last year at the Quaker Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, young Oleg matriculated this fall in the University of Moscow. When Father Troyanovsky sailed for Europe three months ago he confided that had Son Oleg chosen to become a doctor or an engineer he could have continued his U. S. education. When he decided to become a writer, however, Soviet schooling was prescribed...