Word: baptismal
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...ears, not by a Hallowe'ening undergraduate but by a hearty, rough-voiced, middle-aged man whom he did not know very well except that the name was Alfred Emanuel ("Al") Smith. After Mr. Smith of New York left town, Dr. Wilbur Lucius Cross reflected that his political baptism in the name of the Brown Derby was by far the most exciting thing that had occurred to him since 1916, when he was appointed Dean of the Yale Graduate School, a position which he resigned (but not his editorship of the Yale Review) last summer upon being nominated for high...
...most forced and misplaced institutions ever established at Harvard was inaugurated last night when the Lowell House "high table", surrounded by the starched shirts of distinguished guests, the President, and members of the faculty, received its baptism...
...removed the babies' clothes, which they were certain belonged to them, kissed the infants, exchanged them, wept. When Mr. Watkins returned home from a baseball game he exclaimed: "They took advantage of my wife. . . . I'll sue." The now Watkins baby had been given a Roman Catholic baptism as George Edward Bamberger, the now Bamberger child had been given a Presbyterian christening as Charles Evans Watkins...
...their colleges and schools immodestly dressed girls, and should not even make an exception for the mothers of their pupils." Order No. 9 is the most drastic: "maidens and women dressed immodestly are to be banned from holy communion and from acting as godmothers in the sacraments of baptism and confirmation and, if it be an extreme case, may be even forbidden to enter the Church...
...married Cope Harlan, penniless professor of economics, her family disapproved but had to give in; soon it was Cope who was giving in. Cope was an agnostic; his skepticism quickly ran foul of Hilda's belief in her divine rightness. Their first serious quarrel arose over the baptism of their infant daughter; Cope refused to admit she was "conceived in sin," objected to the promises her baptismal sponsors would have to make, their own hypocrisy in making them. Finally Hilda forced him to a separation. He went abroad, made a name for himself on an international finance commission. Then...