Word: quakers
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...personal growth of students. Five years ago, he handed over $6 million to his alma mater, Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia. It was the largest single gift ever received by that quintessential liberal arts college, where the 1,300 or so students are deeply imbued with the school's Quaker tradition of individual responsibility. Lang had already given $1 million to Swarthmore, principally for a music building. "Nothing brings people together like music," he says...
...took a 10-9 lead with less than 10 minutes to go, junior midfielder Allie Kaveney fed the ball to sophomore attack Liz Gamble, who swept across the crease, firing a shot across her body to tie the game at 10. A critical save by Cahow against an unguarded Quaker attacker kept the Crimson’s hopes alive as the game went to overtime...
Hanis noted that Swarthmore is a Quaker school, and he said that the initiative’s support on campus would suffer if GIF funded weapons purchases...
Penn spotted Quaker starter Brian Cirri with an early 3-0 lead, and took that margin into the top of the fifth...
...fourth quarter, Mahler scored his second of the day to give the Crimson a one-goal lead, only to have the game tied a minute later at 10:07 by Penn’s David Andrzejewski. In the tense final minutes, after a Quaker timeout, Harvard gained possession, and Sean Kane—assisted by sophomore midfielder Adam Mahfouda—rocketed a shot past the Penn goalie for the decisive goal—his second of the season...