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However much he mixed in Iowa politics, President Jessup, a good Methodist with Quaker upbringing, has always kept clear of campus squabbles. He reads widely and quickly, keeps two secretaries on the run, lets up only for fishing trips...
...years ago introduced cricket, still the favorite spring sport. Haverford calls freshmen "Rhinies" (as does Lawrenceville School). An annual custom is dressing in odd costumes for the last Ethics lecture of the year by Professor Rufus Matthew Jones, Haverford's most respected and oldest active teacher, 'Quaker theologian and member of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry. The costume custom was nearly abandoned when a student appeared on a Kiddie Kar in long woolen underwear as Lady Godiva. Among Haverford's younger teachers are Leslie Hotson who solved the mystery of Christopher Marlowe's death...
...Butler started scrapping early in life and has continued to fight it out on that line, letting the news stories fall where they may. With the help of Ghost-Writer Lowell Thomas he has laid all his scraps end to end, called it a life. Born a Pennsylvania Hicksite Quaker 52 years ago, Smedley Butler is "still one in good standing, so far as I know." Sixteen when the Spanish-American War was fanned into flame, young Smedley was eager to enlist, threatened to run away unless his parents gave their permission. Anomalous Quakers, they complied, and as his father...
...QUAKER MILITANT: JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER- Albert Mordell -Houghton Mifflin...
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was a Massachusetts farm boy and a Quaker, who lifted up his eyes to Parnassus and neighboring hills. Soon his poems began appearing in newspapers; he left the farm and took to journalism. Even in his salad days his poems were notable for their uprightness; he considered the age poisoned by the licentiousness of Byron and Shelley, and in later years was said to have hurled a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into the fire. But he was soon to pipe a fiercer tune. Sacrificing his personal ambition to the cause...