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...sixties, constituted only a portion of the Yale Faculty's decision to end the separate freshman year because it "in fact thwarted the students' intellectual and emotional growth," Wilkinson said. Now freshmen are integrated into the colleges, where they eat all breakfasts and weekend meals, as well as several weekday lunches and dinners. In addition, the freshmen receive all of their academic counseling from the staff of their college...
...editorial asks for a centralized uniform rule. There used to be a uniform rule -- that there be no "interhouse" at all for weekday lunches. But since the only Houses likely to be overwhelmed by numbers are those near the Yard, it seemed to the Masters silly to maintain unnecessary uniformity...
Thompson has two churches, he says: his Sunday parishioners and his weekday parishioners. For various reasons, the Sunday congregation -- made up of the regular church members -- is declining in number. The weekday parishioners on the other hand, are coming to St. Peters in droves. With dwindling membership, money to run a church must come from outside sources. During the week and in the evenings, St. Peter's parish halls are rented to outside groups which meet there. The Greater Boston Peace Action Coalition, a yoga class, a ballet class, and a Sufi group are currently using the church as their...
Thompson said that in some ways he felt that the weekday congregation was more devout and more genuinely religious than the Sunday congregation. One of the reasons, he said, might be that Sunday worship in an organized church has lost some of the mystique of religion. "Familiarity breeds contempt," he explained...
...early interviews with Good behind him, Stoler is back to running two miles before breakfast each weekday morning, sometimes seven or eight miles on the weekends. "I suppose everybody has got his hang-up," he says a trifle defensively. "I'm hooked on exercise." And on early mornings...