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...here to verify, Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity Or carry report. You are here to kneel Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more Than an order of words, the conscious occupation Of the parying mind, or the sound of the voice praying. --T.S. Eliot "Little Gidding...
Perhaps I ought to leave well enough alone and not attempt a reply to Jendi B. Reiter's piece on my prayer at the president's installation, but to allow her assumptions about my assumptions to go unaddressed is to deprive myself of the opportunity to give the speech she wishes I had given in place of the prayer...
Plays like Lerch's tipped ball reception and Roghair's prayer that Mike Wilson snared in the endzone on fourth down and 22 with less than three minutes to play had to make people wonder whether there was something to this fourth quarter jinx...
Links to traditional Judaism will be stressed by the use of a prayer or other religious text at the beginning of each meeting...
...would not (as his did) act as if that specific tradition were being continued to the present day, with no change except that the Puritans' big crimson umbrella now covered a more diverse bunch of Veritas-seekers. Maybe such a prayer wouldn't mention God, but it would still call us to uphold sacred values like "Truth" and "Right" and the "Fair" in "Fair" Harvard...