Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...printed on everything here from sweatshirts to coffee cups. Contained in it are three open books, all facing upwards. Many years ago, one of these volumes was turned over to represent the truth that cannot be known by empirical methods and reason alone, as well as to signify the faith that Harvard's founders thought should accompany any search for knowledge and truth...
...achieve this however, all embrace of any tradition of faith was utterly abandoned. Today, Harvard's only official religion is one of tolerance, diversity and multiculturalism. The "real stuff," that is, the original truths that opened the university to all and gave these three words moral force, are left to the students to seek, to find and to cherish...
Happily, religious observance at Harvard does not end with Sabbath worship, but moves into the world as students put their faith into action in service to the Harvard community, to Cambridge, Boston and to the world beyond. Don't believe me? Ask someone from the Catholic Students Association and you'll find out those who fast on Ash Wednesday--the first day of the Lenten period preceding Easter--have usually been able to donate the raw cost of their meals to international hunger relief programs. Jewish students on campus were able to do something similar when fasting during Yom Kippur...
...many Republican members of the Senate, which revels in its reputation for cooling tea in the saucer, putting the kettle back on the stove? Once determined to restore faith in the process--or at least not be mentioned in the same breath as Bob Barr--they're now all concerned about the "feelings" of the House managers. The Senators have been letting the managers win one battle at a time, humoring them like children who promise to turn out the light and go to sleep if they can have just one more glass of water...
Graham last visited Harvard in 1982--invited because he was "an outstanding spokesman for the Christian faith, and I wanted to give him the chance to be heard more widely, especially at Harvard," Gomes said last Monday...