Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students at Leverett House rightfully protested. Passed around petitions, cigarettes, indignation. Some proposed making the basement a shelter. "It's in the planning stage," Co-Master John E. Dowling '57 said. A wonderful idea. The check is in the mail...
...question is now one of accidental kindness versus intentional benevolence. Will the University further investigate the homeless situation in the Cambridge community? Will the student body work toward a concrete solution involving education, rehabilitation, and the more apparent requisites of food, warmth, shelter, and dignity? Or will the removal of the grates involve a removal of the conscience, a forsaken sense of duty and moral obligation...
Harvard can be very generous to the homeless in an institutional way--witness its contributions of food and money to area shelters. But this was not a case of "the homeless problem." These were people--and that's all that needs to be said about them. They have probably found another place to stay (hopefully not a shelter, if that's not what they wanted.) But the act was done--and it is overwhelmingly...
Mary Paul and Geraldine belong to the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, an order founded in France in 1641 as Sisters of the Refuge to shelter banished women. The order was renamed and internationalized in 1835 under the leadership of Mother, later Saint, Maria Euphrasia, who emphasized gratitude as the basis of the order's faith and works. "Vous avez un coeur fait pour aimer, fait pour etre reconnaissant." (You have a heart created to love and to be grateful.) Theologically, the tenet of gratitude is seen as the opposite of original sin because it grasps God as the source...
...Larry) Too bad of your scheme Harvard found itself wary. For ghost-ridden common room dwellers a wink, And for all autumn-lovers a pumpkin-filled sink. For upperclass prefects a few good cold showers, And a few common rooms for the Mather gang's towers. An off-campus shelter for each Cabot dweller--And a quick painless end to the noise in the cellar. Some new ideas for the House Committees Who can't hold keg parties in such a strict city, And for all those upholding the laws against drink A gallon of New Coke (to pour down...