Word: unorthodox
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...assemblies are usually opened and closed with prayer. When I teach my Harvard history course, many are surprised by the large role that religion played in the foundation of the University, and shocked to learn that Henry Dunster, our first president, was eased out of office because of his unorthodox views on infant baptism. Because most historians of Harvard read its development as a progressive and welcome move away from those earliest religious identities, and hence tend to minimize them, the very existence of such an identity is news to a lot of people. The president’s gown...
...undergrads’ interest in the dramatic arts was here to stay. In light of this, the HDC and Student Council began to clamor for the creation of a student theater to house Harvard’s dramatic productions. The inconvenience of holding plays in dining halls and other unorthodox spaces, combined with the impossibility of producing every student production in Sanders, contributed to efforts to create not only a home for Harvard theater of the time, but also for generations to come. Harvard’s Visual Arts Committee supported the notion of a Harvard student theater and echoed...
...suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders?...
...each round, but the judges made the final decision on which contestant to send to the next level of competition. Felton, however, said he felt the judging might have been overly influenced by the reaction of the audience. “I guess the judging was a little unorthodox,” he said. “Sometimes someone would get in one good line and the audience would be like, ‘yeah,’ but he actually was not better. But that’s alright, it happens.” One competitor, Finkton, said...
...them to write profitably from their adventurous hearts. Mark Tauber, vice president of HarperSanFrancisco, which publishes many of them (HSF did Family Tomb), notes that these academics came of age during the translation of the Nag Hammadi "library" and the Dead Sea Scrolls, troves that opened a window to unorthodox faith during and after Jesus' life that the Bible and church fathers only hinted at or condemned. The authors can now transmit that vision to a Da Vinci--primed public. Says HSF editorial director Michael Maudlin: "Maybe we have enough evidence to say that our understanding of what happened back...