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...Artist West, Pennsylvania Quaker, was a year younger than John Copley, became the second president of Britain's Royal Academy. He was an American painter only by accident of birth, did no important work until he had left the Colonies for good, circa...
Final dates for the 1939 and 1940 encounters were also set yesterday by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. The 1939 Harvard-Penn game will be played here October 21, and the following year the Crimson Quaker clash will be in Philadelphia on November 9, the Saturday following election...
Playing a long passing game during the first 20 minutes of play, the Crimson's was an impressive attack, but a Quaker spurt in the closing minutes left the Fishermen trailing 22-13 at the half...
...Crimson had a great advantage over the Red and Blue outfit at the center post. Bill Gray, towering over the Quaker pivot-man, won the jump with clock-like regularity while he was in action. During the time he spent on the bench John Herrick carried on just as effectively...
ELIZABETH FRY-Janet Whitney-Little, Brown ($3.50). Sedate biography of a wealthy Quaker social worker whose reform of Newgate Prison inspired Florence Nightingale, turned the notorious prison into a side show for fashionable spectators, hastened the repeal of laws under which Henry VIII had hanged 72,000 English citizens a year for robbery alone...