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Haverford College, in Pennsylvania, the oldest of the American Quaker colleges, is preparing to celebrate its centenary, and the addresses made at its convocation ceremonies are significant of a trend among American educators. "The country needs an exhibit of quality rather than quantity in education," said President Comfort, announcing a new program which will give every older student the individual attention hitherto reserved for honors students, and the address of President Lowell of Harvard echoed the thought...
...Virgin Islands, whither President Hoover was to go this week, got a new civil governor last week. The little minesweeper Grebe carried Dr. Paul M. Pearson, like the President a Quaker, into the harbor of St. Thomas while a Marine detachment shot off a 17-gun salute. The black population with its 5% sprinkling of whites massed in Emancipation Park to watch Governor Pearson take the oath of office, hear his inaugural address. They were all in good humor because the ceremony marked the transfer of their government from the Navy under Capt. Waldo Evans to the Department...
...President appointed Paul Martin Pearson of Swarthmore, Pa., elocutionist, Red Cross speaker, Quaker, to be first Civil Governor of the Virgin Islands. Purchased from Denmark in 1917, the islands have hitherto been in charge of the Navy Department with Captain Waldo Evans, retired, as governor. Jurisdiction of the Virgin Islands now passes from the Navy to the Department of the Interior...
...uplift. The slow arrival of that uplift has not discouraged Idealist Hoover about its ultimate arrival. The sharp swing of public sentiment away from the present law challenges his stubborn nature, for he holds mass thought in low esteem. Even his political ambition is part of this attitude, his Quaker conscience telling him he must continue in his position, cost what pain it may, for the ultimate public good...
James C. Murray, director of Quaker Oats Co., was elected president of Chicago Board of Trade, succeeding John A. Bunnell, president since...