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...Crimson will face off this weekend at Ohiri field against a powerful Quaker team that, in its previous game, scored three goals in just over eight minutes to salvage a 3-3 tie against Georgetown University...
...concept as old as the Republic. Ever since colonists in Boston refused to buy British tea, Americans have wielded their economic clout as a weapon against - and, sadly, sometimes for - social injustice. In the U.S., the power of the purse is the most democratic power of all. The Quaker notion of doing well by doing good - popularized by Ben Franklin, the patron saint of social entrepreneurs - predated the predatory capitalism of the Gilded Age. Its revival is due in part to an Obama effect: as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama relentlessly touted green products and industry and preached the idea...
...homes. "They were not segregated in the island community, as blacks were by law in the Jim Crow South or by custom and tradition in the North," Hayden explains, thanks to the parallel development of black and white communities on the island and the tolerant attitudes of its early Quaker and Methodist residents...
...effort to salvage historical books left inside the destroyed church, some congregation members formed an assembly line to pass down books that survived the flames. A neighboring Quaker church and the repository at the Harvard Divinity School have offered to hold the items until the church finds a space of its own, MacDonald said...
...season.”Harvard is now just a half game behind No. 60 Brown, No. 44 Yale, and Princeton, and likely must defeat all its remaining opponents, including challenging match-ups against the Bears and Bulldogs next weekend, to take the title.HARVARD 4, PENN 3The Crimson defeated the Quakers for the first time since 2006, when Harvard was ranked No. 15 and Penn was No. 41. This time, although both teams were unranked, there were still critical Ancient Eight records at stake, as the Crimson kept its hopes alive for an Ivy crown with a victory.A day after Princeton...