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...country in which to found a farming colony. Such migrations are nothing new to the Mennonites, who number about 600,000 worldwide. Founded in 1525 in Zurich, Switzerland, and named for Menno Simons, a Roman Catholic priest who became their most famous leader, the group insisted on voluntary adult baptism, which earned it the hostility of both Catholics and established Protestant churches. Devout and pacifist, the Mennonites repeatedly had to flee persecution; some groups from Germany and The Netherlands ultimately migrated to Russia and then to the New World. This time, however, the reasons for moving were more secular...
Because the Mormon Church decrees that the living can offer the dead salvation through baptism, devout Mormons check their roots religiously. But who has turned up so many distinguished kin as Mormon President Spencer W. Kimball? According to the Church News, Kimball is related, at times to the seventh cousin once removed, to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Pierce, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford and an eclectic lot of non-Presidents including John Foster Dulles, George Gallup, Aaron Burr, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Walt Disney and Humphrey Bogart. Though the Church News makes...
...baptism of last year now archaic, the hoopsters have become one of Division One's top squads (a 15-8 record to date). Curry is still around, getting the buckets when needed (her 25 against Dartmouth last month was a team-high this winter), but mostly hitting the boards and steadying the new talent in her new role as captain...
...other times, though, the messages seem lost in transit. For instance, Groffo dances on a table at Dave's baptism. He flails about in a russet suit on an orange tablecloth, only to fall on an orange roast pig which has an orange in its mouth and is lit by orange candles at its head. For Groffo to fall on the pig is appropriate but for everything to be orange makes no sense...
When Penn and Princeton come to Cambridge this weekend to give Harvard its first Ivy League basketball competition since Dec. 12, the traditional Ivy powers should have their hands full against a young Crimson squad that has undergone its proverbial baptism by fire...