Word: lents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning of the Fall term, the Freshman Dean lent the Jubilee Committee a fairly sizable amount of money to entice various entertainment groups. , while most of the other creditors have been paid, the Committee has no money left to repay the Dean's loans...
Over 150 persons called the central kitchen yesterday to protest that although the dining halls serve hot cross buns for Lent, they have not yet served matzos for Passover...
...Cheerful Childhood. All the Camaldolese sisters rise at 4 for prayer, observe silence for most of the day, abstain entirely from meat during Lent and Advent. But Sister Nazarena practices a degree of asceticism that is extraordinary even for her order. She is one of the few nuns in the world with ecclesiastical permission to attempt the hermitlike life known as reclusion. Her only contacts with the outside world are with the priest who daily gives her communion and with the convent abbess who visits her from time to time. This week Sister Nazarena and her sister nuns are busy...
Last fall Jean went to work with 33 classmates who were already five to seven years ahead of him in France's dead-earnest schooling. In six months, Jean did five years of work in humanities and six years in science - earning good to excel lent grades all the way. In addition to formal school, Jean also studies for six hours a day with five university professors. Next fall he plans to enter Lyons' National Institute of Applied Sciences to become an engineer, though he refuses to be pigeonholed too soon. "I am interested in everything...
...Three of our constant companions," wrote Martin, were "Fatigue, Hunger and Cold"; men ate birch bark, old shoes, pet dogs. "We kept a continual Lent as faithfully as ever any of the most rigorous of the Roman Catholics did and, depend upon it, we were sufficiently mortified." Yet given a small ration of beef and flour and a sack of straw, Martin and his colleagues "felt as happy as any other pigs that were no better off than ourselves." Such wit eased Martin's suffering, but he also had a sharp eye for the ironic moment or the dramatic...