Word: cathedras
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...What is a Cathedral? It's a chair! That is what the word means. Chairs are like carpets. Most of them are rather settled in one place, but they don't have to be. ... What I want is a chair- a Cathedra-which is not fastened down in one church in one city, but which can travel around to every parish and mission in the diocese. Such a chair is rather useless if it merely provides a place for the bishop to sit. It must be surrounded with other essentials and other people. An altar for worship, books...
This vexed another pugnacious pundit. Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, 69, who gained fame & fortune as an alienist for the defense of Madcap Harry K. Thaw in 1907 when "brain storm" was first offered as a valid excuse for murder. Commented Psychoanalyst Jelliffe: "Dr. Sachs was talking ex cathedra. It's just a new attempt to spread the old gossip and scandal we've been fighting for 40 or 50 years. They don't like to see us get any fees...
...Unrestrained condemnation of the gambling spirit uttered in ex cathedra fashion by the more articulate critics is likely to prove unconvincing to pupils who themselves indulge in gambling or who have friends who easily accept it as a natural bit of behavior in the sport...
...Guide, then, is not an infallible pronouncement ex cathedra, but a guide merely. We believe it is a good one. Its practical value to the new man depends upon that man's confidence in the general student opinion. If the editors of the CRIMSON were not convinced that the overwhelming majority of men in choosing courses lean heavily upon the opinion of experienced follow students, however the opinion is obtained, the Confidential Guide would never have been published...
...latest ex cathedra pronouncement from Colonel Apted, recently appointed chief of the Cambridge cavalry and hussars, appeared a few days ago on the Eliot House Bulletin board. It reads: "No parking will be allowed on Bolyston Street between Mt. Auburn Street and the River on Saturday, June 9th commencing at midnight tonight until 5 P. M. Saturday." Carefully inscribed below is a note to the effect that "this is a police regulation." And thus another fertile "parking" ground is denied the Eliot House playboys who seem inclined to seek them...