Word: spiriting
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...Shea Stadium commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's major league debut, former Mets third baseman Ed Charles read a poem he had written upon Robinson 's death in 1972. The final stanza went: "So go now, and rest for a while/ For again you shall come, a spirit aflame/ In the form of another black child/ That God and destiny shall name...
According to Megan L. Peimer '97, one of the organizers of the coalition, the protest was not directly linked to the Alternative Senior Gift Fund, which also targets the diversity of Harvard's faculty, but is "related in spirit...
...group that has done the least to live up to Robinson's spirit are the very people making flowery speeches about what Robinson meant to the game, namely the owners and administrators who run Major League Baseball. In Robinson's final public appearance, at the 1972 World Series, he urged baseball to allow the integration that he initiated on the field to reach the front office and the dugout. Although Robinson died without ever seeing an African-American manager, Frank Robinson became the first manager three years later...
...kind of complaint that seems barely worth recording--it sounds like the college equivalent to the kind of stuff that filled your high school newspaper. You'd expect to find a tirade about bad party music nestled between the diatribe about how there should be more school spirit and the one about how Student Council elections should be more than just popularity contests...
Hell is just plain inconsistent with the tradition of mysticism that brought me into the faith in the first place. To me, God is a symbol for something unfathomable, an utter mystery that fills my heart with joy and my spirit with song. TRISH CARR Portland, Oregon...