Word: devotees
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The Salvation Army is run by "officers" who, as a condition of their leadership positions, vow to refrain from alcohol and tobacco and only marry other officers so they can devote nearly their entire personal and professional lives to the organization. Future leaders train as "cadets" at Salvation Army colleges...
Harvard will maintain its investments in environmental initiatives despite the tightening University budget, Harvard administrators announced at an event in Sanders Theatre yesterday. Over the last two years, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has reduced its emissions by 8,300 tons of carbon dioxide—an improvement they...
Today’s high schools and universities abound in courses geared towards teaching people “how to think.” Science, math, and English courses focus not on teaching specific material but on “approaches” and “methodologies.?...
It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps. With Wikipedia and Google, our generation is poor in knowledge, specialized or otherwise. While this would seem to be a weight off our minds, it also makes our thinking less profound. Unlike prior generations, who wiled away the hours...
Pforzheimer House Masters Sue and James J. McCarthy announced early yesterday morning that this year will be their last as the gatekeepers of the College’s most phonetically unfriendly House. The announcement, although not entirely unexpected, was met with a wave of nostalgia from students close to the...