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...Currier House, Seeger started singing the tune, "'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free, 'tis a gift to come down, where you ought to be..." And in a swelling chorus smacking of an old movie, the Currier students joined in unison to the old Quaker tune. It would have made such a pleasant addition to "Bound for Glory...
...captain Jeff Campbell snared Harvard's only first in the 1000-yd. run. Campbell coyly stayed on Penn's John Stockel's shoulder through most of the race, then blew past the quavering Quaker to bring home the gold...
...Quakers put the Crimson back on the scoring treadmill when Tony Price cashed in on a three-point play and Harvard forward Bob Hooft picked up his third foul with only ten minutes of play gone. Penn guard Bobby Willis hit on a straightaway 25-footer but Irion, who hauled down 11 points in the half, floated in a scoop shot going down the lane to lop the Quaker lead to eight...
...Seoul we were unable to see the great Korean poet Kim Chi Ha, now in jail serving a life sentence. We did meet the venerable Quaker Hahm Suk Hon, the "Gandhi of Korea," the only Korean who had the courage to call on us. He is now serving an 8 year jail sentence. We also met Kim Dae Jung, who received 46 per cent of the vote in 1971 when Korea last held a popular election. His first words to me were, "I am suffering from a sciatica brought on by an auto collision that I do not think...
...Haverford became restless. President John Coleman, 55, felt that his Quaker school was violating the sect's egalitarian views by refusing to admit women. He also believed that Haverford, worried about its financial wellbeing, would do well to expand from 750 students to about 1,000 by recruiting females. Last November the Haverford faculty voted almost unanimously to admit women, and the student body backed them...