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Alumni from all over the nation will converge on Philadelphia the second weekend in May for the 1948 meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs, the first to be held in the Quaker City in 20 years...
...thesis throughout the world follows simple lines: society can survive only if each individual catches fire with the unselfish desire to live by standards of "absolute purity, absolute honesty, absolute unselfishness, and absolute love." Within the movement itself this involves "quiet times" in the Quaker manner providing for communion with God. To the world crisis this spells an attitude sweeping out at a nebulous "materialism" which is today's embodiment of the bad in human nature...
Skippy Minisi, one-time Navy back and current Quaker star, led the League in scoring with 36 points while Venton Yablonski, Columbia's big fullback, counted more points than anyone in the Ivy group if non-Ivy League games are included. Ivy League standings: W L T PCT. PTS OP Pennsylvania 4 0 0 1.000 113 21 Princeton 4 2 0 .667 113 80 Yale 4 2 0 .667 99 79 Columbia 2 2 0 .500 58 51 Dartmouth 3 4 0 .429 74 120 Brown 1 3 0 .250 44 61 Harvard 1 3 0 .250 54 85 Cornell...
...sterile and oppressive, he ultimately found his personal Christ in Communism. Yet Dreiser's moving desire to explain the life force in other than material terms demanded a religious justification of his views. Not until "The Bulwark" did he discover one. Then, he saw a possible solution in the Quaker doctrine of "the inner light" which animated the life of Solon Banes, and which moved his daughter Etta to realize "the love and peace involved in consideration for others." In this frame, the study of Brahmanism becomes merely another buttress to the synthesis of religion and communism. When Dreiser...
...This week a Quaker official predicted that the U.S. share of the prize money (about $20,000) "will almost certainly go into foreign relief...