Word: wesleyanism
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Another interesting strategy in nicknaming is the you're-always-better-off-with-God-on-your-side motif. Colleges hoping for divine intervention have taken to naming their teams the Battling Bishops (Ohio Wesleyan), and the Cardinals (several teams), and the Saints (St. Lawrence...
William H. Appel '43, at the age of 64, was the oldest member of the troupe that also included students from Rutgers, Brown, Berkeley, Boston College, Wisconsin, Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania...
Dozens of states, cities, unions, and churches have divested their monies from South African holdings. This group includes Connecticut, Massachusetts, Boston, Maryland, New York, the United Auto Workers, Ohio University, Michigan State, Wesleyan the University of Massachusetts, and the Harvard Law Review. Taking a stand against Harvard's investment assumes primary importance now because it is only President Bok's personal campaign against divestment which has conferred any legitimacy at all on the untenable and fading proposition that universities should not care where these invest...
...Wesleyan University president Conn G. Campbell drafted the letter. Other signatories include the presidents of Columbia, Cornell, Notre Dame, Rutgers and Yale Universities and of Amherst, Bryn Mawr, Colby, Dartmouth, Haverford, Oberlin, Smith, Swarthmore and Williams colleges...
...Wesleyan shirt aspires to snobbiness. It says, "I am discerning enough to know the difference between these schools with very slight name differences, and you are not. Not to mention that you probably thought I said, 'Wellesley...