Word: claremont
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Friday, Harvard opens against Cal-Berkeley at 12 noon and then battles Oregon State's club team at 5 p.m. The Crimson plays Claremont-Harvey Mudd at 8 a.m. and Air Force at 4 p.m. Saturday. Finally, Harvard battles Fresno State at 10 a.m. and the Cardinal "B" team at 2 p.m. on Sunday...
...Crimson won two of four matches to place 11th in the U.C.-Irvine Tournament. It blanked Claremont-Mudd, 9-0, and pulled out a close win over Northwest Louisiana, 5-4. The two losses came at the hands of Nebraska and Utah by identical 6-3 scores...
...There are now some presidents who bridge the gap between the worlds of traditional academic values and the policy issues that are increasingly crucial for a university's survival," says Jack H. Shuster, education and public policy professor at Claremont Graduate School and a self-described "president-watcher." He says that this new breed can be called "scholar-practitioners," neither the traditional denizens of the academic world nor the mediators of the legal profession...
...variation on the sage theme comes from Claremont Scholar Burton Mack, who sees Jesus as a "rather normal cynic-type figure," using the term not in the modern sense but referring to a particular school of ancient Greek philosophers, Diogenes among them, who advocated virtue and self-control. Like them, he made ample use of a biting sense of humor ("Let the dead bury their dead"). "Jesus wasn't reforming Judaism," Mack insists. "He was just taking up a Hellenistic kind of social criticism...
...Jesus, whether sage or prophet, to fill what they see as an urgent need for spiritual nourishment and a renewed impetus for social reform. "Jesus may be one of the finest persons who ever lived, but the average person doesn't have any access to him," says Robinson of Claremont. He believes that Christianity would be greatly enriched "if somehow the positive aspects of Jesus' life could be conveyed to the person...