Word: quakers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coincident with the added prestige which this tiny sect has earned, there is a tendency to utilize the name " Quaker " for commercial purposes. This tendency is stoutly opposed by the Quakers of Reading, Pa., who seek state action to curb...
Commercialization of the word -''Quaker...
...social justice, especially in connection with protecting women and children in industry, providing mothers' pensions, resisting mob rule against the Negro. " The divisions wrought by theology and excused by theology are being healed in the sunlight of social vision. Here is where Anglican agrees with Catholic, Catholic with Quaker, Quaker with Baptist, and Baptist with...
Germans who accept our bowl of Quaker Soup with a " bitter chuckle...
...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 meditate, 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...