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Coaches Wright and Rice, who share the teaching burden at the Quaker institution, announced yesterday that the heavy varsity would represent Pennsylvania as the first crew in the races Saturday. Last week, the lighter of the two Pennsylvania crews faced Yale and Columbia as the first Red and Blue eight, but this boat failed to make as satisfactory time as the heavy crew, stroked by Irimiger. A race was held last Tuesday on the Schulykill to determine which crew would be the first boat in the race tomorrow, and the light eight, stroked by Doyle, was defeated...
Secretary of Commerce Hoover, Quaker...
...Quaker...
...said in favor of the new column: never will it be governed by calendar or clock. Without premeditation and sans arriere pensee, in a simple effusion from the heart. The Crime will come, like a Quaker's meeting, whenever the spirit moves. On the whole it is expected that the spirit will vibrate, or knock, or whatever it is spirits do, about once a week...
...after teaching for seven years at Phillips-Exeter Academy, he went to Europe with the Quaker Relief Committee, returning again after the war as their European Commissioner for reconstruction. In this capacity he worked in Germany, Poland, Austria, France and Serbia...