Word: jedidiah
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...conflict between good and evil, neutrality is morally indefensible." Since when has this been true? While it is important to stand up for justice, neutrality in the sense of pacifism has always been morally defensible, as taught by great moral leaders, including Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi. JEDIDIAH J. PALOSAARI Pasadena, California...
...anticipate running enough candidates under the PUCC banner to constitute something very close to a majority [in the council]," said Jedidiah S. Purdy '97, one of PUCC's primary organizers...
...PUCC, spearheaded largely by editors of Perspective, a campus liberal publication, has met with members of several ethnic minority groups, including the Asian American Association, RAZA, the South Asian Association and the Black Students Association, according to PUCC organizer Jedidiah S. Purdy...
...schools relied heavily on textbooks because of a shortage of trained teachers. The dependence was so marked that textbook use in Europe became known as "the American system." The authors, often clergymen, had no problem defining the national identity: it was white, Protestant and suspicious of foreigners. The Rev. Jedidiah Morse, for example, a friend of Dictionary Compiler Noah Webster's and the author of America's first geography textbook, described the Spanish as "naturally weak and effeminate...
...days are gone when a father could write to a 19-year-old son to "form no plans; your mama and I have been thinking and planning for you" (from the Rev. Jedidiah Morse in 1810). Nowadays, says Author Valentine, fathers are simply too unsure of themselves to write really rattling letters to any son past the age of twelve. Significantly, the best letters toward the end of the book are the ones written to small children, including the notes from Kenneth Grahame to his four-year-old son Alistair that were the genesis of The Wind in the Willows...