Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their mother Nancy Walsh, a medical secretary, moved the family to Washington when Bill was 12 and entrusted him to the Jesuit fathers of Gonzaga High School, where he became the only honor student to start on the football team. Bennett accepted a scholarship to Williams College in Massachusetts, where he planned vaguely to study advertising. He played football, joined a fraternity and hauled furniture in the summers to meet expenses. But then, Bennett recalls, he enrolled in a philosophy course taught by a gifted professor, Laszlo Versenyi, and "fell in love with the stuff...
...hears in his travels of people making precisely those kinds of tough choices, and finding fulfillment in them, and he wishes society would honor them more. "I can't accept," he says, "that we're helpless to save our families and our society without some new federal program or regulation." As individuals and through voluntary associations, he says, paraphrasing novelist Flannery O'Connor, we must push back as hard as the age that pushes against...
...parade kicked off a month of activities organized by the Cambridge Arts Council under the theme, "Honor the Past and Reach for the Future...
...site now known as Cambridge was first settled in 1630 and named Newtowne. Six years later, the Massachusetts Bay Company set aside funding for what eventually became Harvard. In 1638, the town was renamed Cambridge in honor of the English alma mater of many of the Puritan settlers in Massachusetts...
...biggest reason for this prediction is junior Emily Stauffer. Undoubtedly the best soccer player ever to compete at Harvard, the midfielder was a First Team All-American selection, the first Crimson player ever to win the honor. The Ivy League Player of the Year, she led the conference with 13 goals and nine assists...