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...literature doesn't interest you, you also need the Bible to make sense of the ideas and rhetoric that have helped drive U.S. history. "The shining city on the hill"? That's Puritan leader John Winthrop quoting Matthew to describe his settlement's convenantal standing with God. In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln noted sadly that both sides in the Civil War "read the same Bible" to bolster their opposing claims. When Martin Luther King Jr. talked of "Justice rolling down like waters" in his "I Have a Dream" speech, he was consciously enlisting the Old Testament prophet Amos...
...class I saw suggested it. Kendrick aces the compulsories--notes John Locke's use of the Beatitudes and Frank Zappa's riffs on "the meek shall inherit the earth," and ponders why various politicians have found it more convenient to attribute the "city on a hill" to Winthrop rather than to Matthew. When a student asks how Jesus could say the meek shall inherit the earth, when Christianity inherited it only after attaining tremendous strength, she suggests, "When he was giving the sermon, people took it not just as a physical award but an emotional or spiritual kind of award...
Before Monday, when “Closed For Construction” signs appeared on the doors of the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), Carolyn C. Buckley ’09 worked out there three to six times a week. Since then, she has resorted to the Winthrop House gym, with its one treadmill, one elliptical machine, one bike, and a handful of weight machines. In the wake of the MAC’s closing, students like Buckley are placing an added strain on House gyms, prompting some Houses to prepare special accommodations. “We had a number of requests...
...Emma M. Lind ’09, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a history and literature concentrator in Winthrop House...
...Plus” (though for even better “Hemp Plus,” head to the Dudley Co-Op). That is, if you haven’t had an epileptic seizure from the “mood lights.” If you’re in Winthrop, just think of it as an annex of Eliot. This will lessen your confusion and increase your self-esteem. You can even attend their stein clubs on Thursdays. And if you’re housed in Pfoho-Currier-Cabot? Good luck figuring out which is which. We know we?...