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...outlines the importance of women in the Quaker movement by focusing on the amazing exploits of a few pioneers. Elizabeth Hooton traveled from England to preach in Cambridge, Mass., where the "college boys...mocked and pelted her." She was placed in a dungeon and left without food for two days before being sentenced to whippings through three towns and expulsion from the colony. Mary Fisher and Elizabeth Williams were to face the same hostility in Cambridge. When asked by the mayor for their husbands' names, the Quakers replied that "they had no husband but Jesus Christ." The mayor promptly "denounced...
Penn quarterback John McGechan led the Quaker attack, completing nine of 17 passes for 121 yards, one touchdown and one interception...
...house-any architecture major could tell that-for down beneath the basement was a chamber as dark as the grave. This had been a depot on the Underground Railroad, a hiding cellar for northbound slaves. The landholders, generation after generation, had given over their rolling soil and their Quaker time to corn and cows, and for a very long while there it would seem the clock stood still...
...that stretch, Quaker quarterback John McGeehan tossed two touchdown passes. Rich Comizio scampered 37 yards for a score and Tom Murphy added field goals of 31 and 36 yards...
Comizo, the Quaker sophomore tailback, keyed the Pennsylvania onslaught with 105 yards on 15 carries and one touchdown...