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Last year the Crimson had a disappointing Eastern tournament. It finished third amongst varsity squads and lost to a few club teams. Because the team did not place in the top two it did not qualify for Nationals...
This reticence is especially ironic on this campus, founded to educate future Puritan ministers. Puritans found religion a part of every moment of their lives. They discussed and debated their beliefs endlessly, not just amongst themselves but with the world at large. In college, they learned Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, both to read the Bible and to become familiar with other faiths...
...early Italian Renaissance. Although they have taken different paths, Liz, Alix and Esther share a long friendship and common bonds dating back to their student days at Cambridge in the 1950s. "These three women," Drabble notes, "it will readily and perhaps with some irritation be perceived, were amongst the creme de la creme of their generation." What have time and circumstances done to the best and the brightest...
During the Sunday service in PBH, a youngmember got up and discussed a passage from theBook of Malachi, which stated that the Lorddisdains people who bring him inferior offerings.Immediately afterwards, a collection plate waspassed around amongst the student congregation,which promptly filled it with five and 10 dollarbills...
...Institute of Politics (IOP) is sitting behind his desk on a rainy July day, surrounded by boxes that litter his freshly vacuumed office floor. A small bust of Abraham Lincoln and a picture of Dick, as his friends call him, at the Great Wall of China stand out amongst the debris. Worn books on politics such as "All the President's Men," "The Final Days," "The Brethren," and works by Garry Wills and William Safire stare out from the wall behind...