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We may add that many, if not all, of the

numerous and influential Quakers in America have thrown themselves heart and soul into the fight for liberty. A recent article in the New York Tribune described the active part that is being played in the war by old students of the Quaker College at Richmond, Indiana. One of the " boy preachers," who earned his way through College by preaching around the countryside, is a Lieutenant. The writer of the article illus- trated the resolute temper of the College by saying that she had suggested a certain Friend as a trustee, and received the answer : "We thank thee for thy suggestion about T—, but we are afraid his pacifistic position on the war would bar him from that office."