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Schoolboy hate teacher attitude is shown on the U. of Pennsylvania campus. Antithesis of the popularity contest, the senior Penns at the Quaker City voted to pick the two most unpopular professors. Notoriety Incongruity...
...University baseball team, will be out of the game for at least a month with a broken right wrist suffered in the Pennsylvania game last Saturday, it was learned yesterday. The injury of the star backstop occurred, as far as it is known, in the third inning of the Quaker fray, and was not known until yesterday...
...home, Stevenson M. Crothers is a country squire, farms his land, keeps a pair of pointers for bird-shooting in the fall. He shoots clay birds on Saturdays, all the year round, at clubs in his district -Quaker City, North End Gun, Rocksburgh. He won the national championship in 1925, 1927, 1928, and he won it again last week with 193 hits out of 200-wonderful shooting in that kind of a wind, or no wind, for that matter. His father, Stevenson Crothers, shot too. So did his sister, Alice Crothers, who finished highest (161) of the three women entered...
...late '60s Johns Hopkins, wealthy Quaker merchant of Baltimore, provided money to establish there a University which would include a hospital and a medical school. Much preliminary preparation was necessary before the medical school could be opened. Finally, in 1883, needing a pathologist to open the school, the trustees despatched an emissary to Germany to find one. The Germans sent the emissary back to the U. S. "Find Welch," they said. "We have no one bigger...
...Joseph Ridgeway Grundy of Bristol, arch-lobbyist for the Tariff, active raiser of campaign funds. Long used to dictating to politicians though never before a large officeholder, Mr. Grundy greatly enjoyed his transition and soon regarded himself as the G. O. P. boss of the whole State. An upright Quaker, he scorned Boss Vare. Solidly intrenched with industrial interests, he did not worry about a few enemies he had made among women, fraternalists, volunteer firemen, and certain labor groups...