Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state where Reagan has injected himself so visibly into the Senate race, campaigning in person for Hatch twice in the last six weeks, observers say a good deal will ride on whether the Mormon population--almost 7 percent of the electorate--is fed up with the worsening economic outlook or still responding to the president's personal draw...
Carter praises the Harvard Mormons, claiming that "they have big dreams and they're working to make them into something. "Carson is in a unique position among the undergraduates interviewed: After completing his mission and then his sophomore year at Harvard, he married a Mormon from his hometown. In addition to his wife, his closest friends are Mormons...
...missionaries interviewed, the Harvard Mormon community is an important resource. The Institute of Religion holds twice-weekly study sessions, at which religious questions and issues are raised and discussed. Although these sessions are held at 8:00 a.m., they are attended by nearly every Mormon who participates in church services at least once monthly...
Finlayson chose to attend Harvard in part because its Mormon population is larger than those of the other Ivy League universities to which he applied. Beck reports that "the Harvard Mormons mean more and more to me all the time." His appreciation of the warmth and solace provided by his religion was heightened during this past summer, when he arrived in Tokyo, utterly without personal contacts, and the Japanese Mormon community found him an apartment and helped him to settle...
Despite the differences in their attitudes toward Harvard, despite the disparities among their chosen fields of study, despite dissimilarities in their personalities which are manifest even in interviews, the returned Mormon missionaries display one vital characteristic in common: their faith. John Beck summarized the situation neatly when he stated, "The most important thing, if you're going to do a mission, is to believe in it." And they...