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Your article about the retirement of the George School's able principal [TIME, Feb. 23] brings to mind an incident that illustrates 'the Pope's" [George A. Walton] Friendly understanding and treatment of his students. Returning from Quaker Meeting in nearby Newtown one Sunday morning, my roommate and I could not resist the temptation to throw stones through the windows of a coal shed. . . . The irate owner pursued us up the racks but, being in training for soccer at the ime, we soon outdistanced...
...Solomon Eagles (or Eccles) was a fanatical 17th Century Quaker who, stripped to the waist and carrying a brazier full of fire & brimstone on his head, walked the streets predicting doom...
...Philadelphia, the American Friends Service Committee announced that nearly 800 U.S. college students would participate in 60-odd Quaker-sponsored summer work projects. Samples: rebuilding a fire-razed Maine community; the development of recreation programs in Detroit, Chicago and Rowland, Me.; reconstruction of homes and community buildings in Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland and the U.S. zone of Germany...
Published this week is a new version of The Cloud of Unknowing (Harper; $1.50) -this time an "interpretation" by an anonymous student at a Quaker center. Greatly abridged and rearranged, the language of the new version is pared down to plain English as spare as a Friends' meetinghouse. The result is far less colorful than the conventional editions but perhaps more useful to the modern reader...
...versatile Quaker took the 100 in 0:53.1, while Joe Fox and Norm Watkins picked up second and third for the home team. Fox triumphed in the 50 with Penn's Guenther and LeFevre coming through with second and third. Fox's winning time...