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When Franklin made his list of personal virtues he was intent on acquiring, he very proudly showed it around to his friends, one of whom, a Quaker, pointed out that he had left one off. Franklin was often guilty of "pride," the friend said, citing many examples. So Franklin added "humility" to his list...
...practice. He was dimly understood to be an American general; he was so much an anomaly in socially inert France that he was repeatedly addressed as Monsieur de Franklin. This frontier philosopher was dripping in honorary degrees. He wrung a great deal of mileage out of being thought a Quaker, which he was not. Every religion claimed Franklin, groused John Adams, who knew that his colleague had little use for the stuff, at least in any churchgoing sense. This by no means prevented Franklin's becoming a cult figure. He made America his religion, adapting the rituals to suit...
Charles Ufford ’53 was raised a Quaker and, according to the tenets of his religion, registered as a conscientious objector when his draft examination rolled around...
...Potter's childhood was a different kind of battleground. His mother overdosed on sleeping pills that he, then a teenager, had fetched for her. He was so desperate to experience the Vietnam War that he enlisted in the Marine Corps, despite (or maybe because of) the objections of his Quaker father...
...half ended with Crimson sophomore midfielder Rory Edwards receiving a long pass from the defense. All alone in front of the Quaker net, she stood poised to take her shot when the buzzer blared. Other than some frantic attempts in the final few meaningless minutes of the game, it would be the Crimson’s last serious scoring threat...