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...agriculture crippled by just about everything that a hard winter and the perversity of man can do, Europe faces a famine this winter that may well be worse than any ever known in the Old World. No man knew this better than Quaker Herbert Hoover, who 25 years ago had the job of keeping Europe's children fed (see cut). Wrote onetime President Hoover in Liberty last week: "The food situation in the present war is already more desperate than at the same stage in the World War. ... If this war is long continued, there is but one implacable...
Levelheaded, unassuming, tireless, Dr. Reinhardt thinks she has done nothing out of the ordinary. "The reason I'm not interesting," says she, "is that everything comes naturally to me. I've faced no great crises or conversion religiously [her mother was a Quaker]. To me religion is a part of living. And it's the only way I know to remove egotism...
Sophomore Burgy Ayres who has played in the infield and who Saturday proved his ability on the mound by handcuffing the Quaker nine, will take over Gene Lovett's right field post for this afternoon's games with Dartmouth at Hanover...
...shutout win over the Pennsylvania nine by sophomore pitcher, Burgy Ayres, was the only bright spot in the otherwise disappointing weekend for the Crimson batsmen as they dropped two other contests, the second game of the Saturday afternoon, Quaker double-header, 9 to 6, and a 6 to 5 loss to Princeton on Friday afternoon...
...Pennsylvania in its birth was a planned society," Bates observes. To his mind Penn was a great political thinker, the Quaker Colony was democracy's brightest hope. While that prurient sadist and hypochondriac, Cotton Mather, was torturing old women for witchcraft in Massachusetts, Penn dismissed a charge of broomstick riding with the remark that there was no law in Pennsylvania against riding on broomsticks. Penn's incredibly dramatic-and in the end tragic-life has nowhere been better told...