Vintage

The Function of a Quaker College

by Howard H. Brinton

(13 pages of text)

Howard Haines Brinton (1884-1973), of Chester County, Pennsylvania, graduated from Haverford College, Harvard University, and the University of California.

He taught at Friends Select School (Philadelphia), Olney Boarding School (Barnesville, Ohio), Guilford College, Earlham College, and Mills College, and worked for the American Friends Service Committee in Europe.  He was Director of Pendle Hill, the Quaker center for study and contemplation in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, from 1936 until his retirement in 1952.

                A prolific author, in addition to numerous Pendle Hill pamphlets on Quaker topics, his major works include The Mystic Will, Based on a Study of the Philosophy of Jacob Boehme, (Macmillan, 1930), Creative Worship (Allen & Unwin 1931), Divine-Human Society (Pendle Hill, 1938), Children of Light (Macmillan, 1938), Guide to Quaker Practice (Pendle Hill, 1943), Quaker Education in Theory and Practice (Pendle Hill, 1949), Friends for 300 Years (Harper, 1952), Creative Worship and Other Essays (Pendle Hill, 1963), Quaker Journals: Varieties of Religious Experience Among Friends (Pendle Hill, 1972), and The Religious Philosophy of Quakerism; The Beliefs of Fox, Barclay, and Penn as Based on the Gospel of John (Pendle Hill, 1973).