Word: quakers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Quaker," (Arr. by E. H. Jackson, '92). -L. F. Berry and Glee Club...
...University of Pennsylvania Gua Club has accepted the challange of the Harvard Shooting Club to a match at clay pigeons. The match will take place on the latter club's grounds at Watertown about the middle of May. The men from the Quaker city are said to have a crack team, and without doubt will give our team a hard fight. The Shooting Club's dinner, which was to have come off next month, will probably be postponed to the evening of the day of the match, in honor of the visitors...
...Princeton nine will open the base-ball season by playing the Quaker City nine of Philadelphia, on the 3rd of April. A game has been arranged with the Columbia College nine for the 7th, and one with the Young Americas, of Germantown, for the 10th...
...doubt and irreverence. These misinformed conservatives will learn with pleasure that Harvard has not only not abolished compulsory prayers, but has remodeled the old method of conducting them so that now they are more impressive than ever. The new change inaugurated yesterday marks a revolution. The teachings of the Quakers have received support. Hereafter no one will be required to officiate, but each student will quietly mediate, and wait for the moving of the spirit. In order to accomplish this revolution, a few more changes are necessary. Abolish the boy choir, do away with ringing of the bell, strip...
...Byrn Mawr is nine miles from Philadelphia, on the line of the Pennsylvania railroad, and is one of the prettiest places of summer resort within easy distance of the Quaker City. Its topography is picturesque. But one of the distinguishing features of Bryn Mawr hereafter is to be its college for the higher education of women, situate in the midst of 32 acres of choice land, and connected with which are the cottages already built and others yet to be built for the pleasant accommodation of the faculty and any overflow of students. This Bryn Mawr College "was founded...