Quaker Weather

Philadelphia's Haverford College has "strained its Quaker traditions of absolute pacifism," admitted President Felix Morley last week, and agreed to become part of the Army's nationwide chain of "little West Points." Young Army privates, 18 to 21, will take preliminary scientific training for commissions as meteorologists in the Army Air Forces at Haverford, will live and drill in uniform on its pacific campus.

President Morley implied that some Haverford Quakers will object, but that many will console themselves with the fact that meteorologists are noncombatants, even though they may put the final okay on plans for bombing raids.

Candidates for military weathermen must not only be bright but of unusually firm character--an Air Forces meteorologist must stick by his forecasts in spite of severe pressure from action-minded tacticians.

Lest the college further strain its tradition, Haverford--with its Quaker neighbors, Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr--last week proposed another sort of contribution to the world outside. Before Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Herbert Lehman they placed a joint proposal chat they train a staff to help in the U.S. administration and relief of occupied countries.

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