Word: quakerly
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Penn, the defending champion, is again favored to capture the title with Lehigh expected to be the Quaker's most serious competition...
Before the Civil War, Wilmington was a station on the Underground Railroad; today about 5% of its population is black. But its Quaker tradition of tolerance is being tested by uglier habits of mind, because the town has been buffeted by a series of racial incidents. In 1992 a bloody fight broke out between black and white students at an off-campus Wilmington College party. In 1993 and 1995 the Ku Klux Klan staged rallies at the courthouse; though fewer than 50 sympathizers showed up each time, black leaders were understandably concerned--and their fears were heightened last year when...
Pickard is a realist. A Quaker missionary's son, he didn't try to fight Airborne about the contamination; he started watering his herd from the city's supply. His son works in Airborne's maintenance shop, and Pickard himself makes extra money plowing snow for the company. He can use the cash, since the 15 parcels he farms, comprising 58 acres he owns and an additional 1,400 he rents or leases, net him just $9,000 a year. "Basically, you have to be numb," he says. "You have to accept what is good and shut off what...
...moment or two, I sat in stunned silence. Then I said, "Do you think that every place it says 'Mormon' they could just cross that out and put in 'Quaker...
...enter The Game winless in league play--it will mark the first unblemished league record in team history.Crimson PhotosDavid. S. TangAN OLD-FASHIONED WHUPPIN': (Top) Sophomore CHRIS NOWINSKI downs Penn's BRIAN BONANNO as a mob of Crimson tacklers survey the scene. (Left) Junior JOE MATTSON evades a Quaker defender...