Word: spirits
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...alumna of Harvard, I feel inclined to respond to the article "Tutors Criticize Randomization in an Open Letter" (May 5) and say that I completely support the statements in the letter. In recent visits to Cambridge, I have noticed the lack of comfort and House spirit embodied in the present House system. Fortunately, I was in one of the last groups of students able to choose my home for three years. I chose Cabot, North, Currier and Adams as my four choices for the housing lottery. The vibe in these four Houses fit my personality. The lottery placed my blocking...
...state government has no business legislating when, how, or if we observe the Sabbath. By putting the religious mores of one faith into law, Massachusetts is violating the spirit of the principle of separation of church and state. While laws requiring once-a-week shop closings in general might serve the nominally secular purpose of providing a day of rest (an aim sanctioned by the Supreme Court), the alcohol law imparts a specific religious judgement about drinking on Sundays which the state is in no position to make. Those who wish to observe the Sabbath by not drinking alcohol...
...monk in a trance state. Less exotically, the Shugdenites' purism hinders the High Lama's attempts to unify the Tibetan diaspora by reducing differences among its four main Buddhist schools. The Dalai Lama told TIME that he was worried about people's seeking "external help" from a protector spirit while neglecting Buddha's teaching of compassion and wisdom: "Some people worship toward [Shugden] almost equal with the Buddha. That's a disgrace...
...happen to like Faye as a person. I like her spirit. But in all honesty she has set herself up as a social-service agency, except that unlike a social-service agency, she doesn't do her homework. She takes at absolute face value what the complainant says...
...opinion, randomization has balkanized the houses, producing fragmented communities comprised primarily of large blocking groups that have become a substitute for the spirit that used to exist at the house level. Blocking groups tend to function in isolation from each other, thus undermining a larger sense of house community that might otherwise have formed...