Why be loyal to the Society of Friends?, 1911.

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Why be loyal to the Society of Friends?, 1911.

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In April of 1911, Walter R. Miles, then professor at Iowa State University, posed this query to other Quakers: Why be loyal to the Society of Friends as a distinct denomination? This collection includes responses he received over the next year from prominent Friends across the nation, particularly educators from the Midwest. The letters present their spiritual and doctrinal philosophies. Authors include J. Herschell Coffin, H. Lavinia Bailey, O. Edward Janney, Edward Grubb, Joseph Elkinton, Rufus Jones, Isaac Sharples, President of Haverford College, John F. Hanson, Murray S. Kenworthy, L.L. Hobbs, founder of Whittier College, Edwin McGrew, Charles E. Tebbets, Edmund Stanley, and others.

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Haviland, Henry M. (Henry Morris) 1840?-1943

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Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948

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Stanley, Edmund, 1847-1928

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Hanson, John F. (John Frederick), 1841-1917

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Coffin, J. Herschel (Joseph Herschel), 1880-

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Miles, Walker R. (Walker Richard), 1885.

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Walter R. Miles, a Quaker educator born in 1885, was a professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the State University of Iowa. From the description of Why be loyal to the Society of Friends?, 1911. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 31324004 ...

Elkinton, Joseph, 1859-1920

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McGrew, Edwin, 1868-

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Grubb, Edward, 1854-1939

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Hobbs, L. L. (Lewis Lyndon), 1849-1932

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Sharpless, Isaac, 1848-1920

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Isaac Sharpless. Educator, born in Chester Co., Penn., graduated from Harvard in 1873 and received a Sc. D from the University of Pennsylvania in 1883. He rose from instructor in mathematics to Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy and Dean and President (1887-1917) at Haverford College. He resigned to become Dean of T. Wistar Brown Graduate School. He wrote text books on astronomy, geometry, English, and education and volumes on Quakerism, Pennsylvania history, and American colleges, among oth...

Stranahan, E. H. (Edgar Howard), 1875-1944

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Tebbets, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1855-

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