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A scaled-down version of the plan will go into effect this Spring with 18 upperclassmen assigned to 12 proctors and their freshmen, said Dean of Freshman Henry C. Moses.
A reader who described the magic of the number 40 says that Moses wandered in the wilderness for 40 days [LETTERS, Oct. 29]. The Jews never had it that easy: it was 40 years.
At the first Cabinet meeting after his reelection, Reagan pulled out of his coat pocket a copy of his famous 1964 speech for Barry Goldwater in which he laid down his scripture about forcing Government to heel. It was like Moses bringing back the tablets for review.
Your story on abortion [NATION, Sept. 24] says that medieval theologians estimated that "the soul joined the body at the 40th day of pregnancy." Forty is a magical number. The biblical Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights, Ali Baba had 40 thieves, and Moses wandered in the wilderness for...
To feminist critics of Holy Scripture, there is something grievously wrong with the beginning of the Twenty-Third Psalm in traditional translation. "The LORD is my shepherd" has a distinctly male aura to it. Far better, say the critics, to render David's words in a neutral way: "God...