Word: rite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...awards were given by the Stride Rite Community Service Corporation, a joint program of the Stride Rite Foundation--which is funded by the Stride Rite shoe corporation--and Harvard University...
...different. I feel the need to cross this journalist's rite of passage, and thus I offer my picks for this year's tournament...
Today, the story looks much bleaker. The Yale Bowl and Princeton's Palmer Stadium are falling apart. A game at a more than half- filled Harvard Stadium is considered a success--the Yale game excepted, which is more of a rite of passage than a display of fanaticism...
There's always the real purpose of the stacks--the secluded B southwest section has an excellent reputation for that infamous undergraduate rite of passage...
...differently. The Roman Catholic Church consigned Valentine to an eternity of sappiness when it canonized him 200 years after his demise, according to a recent article in The New York Times. (It was a slow news day, okay?) The church intended Valentine's Day to supplant a popular fertility rite of the pagan god Lupercus, who was associated with "joy, abundance and sexual freedom." Joy, abundance and sexual freedom sound a lot more entertaining to me than the current, more greeting-card-driven ritual, but then I'm not Roman Catholic and may be missing out on religious significance...