Word: prayerfulness
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Three undergraduates convened for a prayer ceremony this Friday to protest a Crimson column printed last week...
Kelsey T. Leonard ’10, a member of the Shinnecock Nation group, organized and led the prayer to protest a Dec. 6 Crimson column by Jonathan Lehman ’08, which stated that the “crusade” against team mascots in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was overblown...
...column, which ended with the line “I think the Crimson would’ve slaughtered the Indians,” precipitated heated discussion over many open lists, including house lists, Fuerza, Students Taking on Poverty, and First-Year Urban Program. News of the prayer ceremony spread through these lists as well...
Leonard said that in addition to the prayer ceremony, the Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) were urging people to wear red or crimson t-shirts that day as a sign of solidarity...
...well as uprisings of slaves and colonized peoples from the Caribbean to West Africa. When the Industrial Revolution took hold, holidays were eliminated in favor of the new work ethic: people were increasingly expected to labor all day, six days a week, and spend the Sabbath in sedentary prayer. A few traditional- style festivities survived--Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Carnaval in Rio and carnival in Cologne. But by and large, sometime in the past 300 years, the music stopped...