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...Students in Friends (Quaker) colleges are least conservative, Catholic students by far the most reactionary. State universities are in the middle, but they have more liberalizing influence than any other type of college...
...father's name was Elijah, and his mother's name was Eunice, and he was born at Westchester Landing on the Bronx River in New York in 1807. His Quaker parents christened him Ezra...
...method might eventually be put. But Mr. Pepys, willing like most laymen to rush in where scientists fear to tread, ventured 272 years ago to draw a conclusion from the experiment he described. Said he: "This did give occasion to many pretty wishes, as of the blood of a Quaker to be let into an Archbishop, and such like; but . . . may, if it takes, be of mighty use to man's health, for the amending of bad blood by borrowing from a better body...
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...moved them, Florence Willits and Isaac Cocks rose and faced each other. The man took the girl's hand, declared he would take her for his wife. The girl repeated the pledge. Then they sat down. Thereupon everyone present signed a wedding certificate. Thus last week, in traditional Quaker style. Isaac Cocks and Florence Willits became man and wife. Too plain a ritual for modern brides, it was only the second wedding ceremony the little Quaker meeting house, which was founded in 1725 and today counts few youngsters in its congregation, had seen in 102 years...