Word: wesleyanism
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...Friday night White is host at a small dinner party in his house with help from a friend, Stephanie Guss, who has prepared stuffed pheasant. At 8, the doorbell rings and Henry Abelove, a visiting associate professor of history from Wesleyan University, arriving with two others, says, "What a notorious neighborhood!" "I know," White replies, not missing a beat, greeting his guests, some of whom he is meeting for the first time, "and nobody believes me, but when I rented this house, I swear I didn't know. I didn't know...
...discipline, work and war. Like the stereotypes of the snobbish English or the immoral French or the crass Americans, such caricatures are generally created by one's enemies, often in times of war. "There is such a thing as national character, but it changes," says William Manchester, a Wesleyan University adjunct professor of history and author of The Arms of Krupp. "And the German national character has changed. The Germans are united by language, by culture. And young Germany -- which is most of Germany today -- is also united by a horror of the Second and Third Reichs...
Some of the tourists are here with a more serious mission: they are teenagers with their parents on the ritual trip to visit colleges. Yesterday they stopped at Wesleyan and Yale; tomorrow, there are interviews scheduled at Amherst and Williams. The parents always look nervous; the kids either look nervous or bored...
...Irish are the clear underdogs entering the contest, having suffered losses to Division III powers Ohio Wesleyan and Denison...
...fundraising capacity, Harvard Against Cancer will likely follow the lead of the six existing Campus Against Cancer schools--Tufts, Boston College, the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Syracuse and Wesleyan--which this spring participated in a successful two-week fund drive...