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...badly wrenched shoulder, George Lowman will probably be unable to start in his forward position on the Varsity basketball team, when the Crimson faces the tough Quaker quintet Saturday at Philadelphia, it was learned yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INJURED SHOULDER MAY KEEP LOWMAN OUT OF QUAKER TILT | 2/24/1938 | See Source »

Forward. Made public last week in England was a plan, drafted by the two Anglican archbishops, eleven bishops and representatives of Nonconformist churches (Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Quaker), by which reunion is to be attempted between the Church of England and the Free Churches, whose total membership is 7,000,000. The plan contemplates a church governed by a general assembly, bishops, diocesan synods and congregational councils, new bishops to be chosen from the Free Churches on the basis of their membership. Within this church there would be great freedom of doctrine and worship, but Anglicans would be asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Toward Unity & Back | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...position, Crowther will be the head line coach under the new Quaker mentor and Director of athletics, George Munger, who was appointed two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACCEPTS PENN JOB | 1/26/1938 | See Source »

...narrowed down to the Southern Negro, not to protect Southern womanhood as was usually claimed (he found rape charged in less than one lynching in five*), but to shackle and harry a growing economic competitor. Rope & Faggot also maintained that lynch law dated back to Colonial days when a Quaker named Charles Lynch sat as magistrate in an extra-legal court at what is now Lynchburg, Va., to try horse thieves, to the 18305 when a St. Louis judge, aptly named Lawless, advised a jury that mob murder was "beyond the reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Black's White | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Oldest of ten children, Isaac was born in Philadelphia in 1827, went to a Quaker school and Haverford College, was apprenticed to a dry-goods merchant, later to a mapmaker. Finding his "worldly spirit" in collision with the piety of his father, he struck out on his own, worked as a farmhand, then started west with a companion, bumming rides on primitive trains, stealing poultry, taking up with a drunken canal boatman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Benefactor of Science | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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