Word: mentionables
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yale forward Amanda Walton was named the league's first Rookie of the Week for her two game-winning goals. Harvard senior forward Judy Collins earned honorable mention...
...product of 13 years of Catholic education, the last four with the Jesuits," I told my thesis adviser recently when he asked me to tell him a bit more about myself. It struck me as strange to mention my religion as the second piece of information after telling him I was from St. Louis. I could have said any number of things, mentioned a million interests, but for some reason my Catholicism popped into my head. And he seemed satisfied with the information, even pleasantly...
...response I've enjoyed often here at Harvard. In fact, it would not be so far from the truth to describe the unspoken attitude toward religion in general, and Christianity in particular, as respectfully hostile. Indeed, it is with some apprehension and not a little awkwardness that I mention the "r" word at all, in any of its forms or guises. I have, of course, found ways of expressing my native Catholicism. I attend St. Paul's student Mass nearly every Sunday, abstain from eating meat during Lent, wear an ashen cross on my forehead the whole of Ash Wednesday...
That is not to say that I've been the object of overt religious persecution, an evil whose history and legacy I take quite seriously. It does mean, however, that a palpable sense of the passe has informed almost every lecture that has made mention of God in the three years of classes I've taken. It seems as though my professors and most of my classmates share a common "knowledge" about the inanity of a belief in God and think that some of us have simply missed a great enlightenment. To a certain extent I agree--not with...
...deal more comfortable at Harvard celebrating my heritage as a young black man in the second half of the twentieth century than in trumpeting my religion. I wonder how the Puritans who founded this institution would react to that. Despite my adviser's amiable response, I probably won't mention religion to any great extent in my senior thesis on community service as democratic participation. Nor will I offer the religious answers to secular questions I encounter in sections and discussions every day, answers that not only seem obvious to me but that seem right...