Word: christos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Villa of Comeada: " At the beginning of October, 1919, Homem Christo had rented at Comeda a house. . . . Eight days afterward, one of his friends, Gomez Paredes, came and asked for a night's hospitality. . . . After they had passed the evening together, each retired to his bedroom about 1 a. m. . . . Hardly had he put out his candle, when Mr. Paredes heard knocks on his window panes. He got up and opened his window, but saw nobody. He lay down again. He heard steps quite close to him and doors opening and closing all over the building. He lighted...
...Another night, while there was a light, nothing abnormal occurred; but as soon as it was extinguished, big blows were heard on the ground-floor door in the garden. Mr. Christo quickly descended the stairs and stationed himself by the door. The blows started afresh. He opened suddenly, and saw nobody. He went out. . . . Hardly was he out when the door banged behind him and was locked. Outside he saw nobody. Mr. Christo, much interested, was convinced that somebody had played a practical joke. He took up his revolver...
...Next day Mr. Christo, who did not know or admit the possibility of psychic phenomena, resolved to call in the aid of a policeman. ... An officer and two constables were placed at his disposal. . . . After searching and inspecting every corner of the house, the lights were extinguished. Knocks on the front door were immediately heard downstairs. 'Do you hear that?' said Mr. Christo to the constables. 'Perfectly,' they said...
Search in the past for a source for the motto used on the Harvard seal has been without avail. But according to a paper recently read before the Colonial Society in Boston there are two incidents which might have inspired Harvard men to adopt the phrase "Christo et Ecclesiae." The first possible influence came from a Dutch academy, the University of Franeker established in 1585. Here, during the first half century of its existence, the words "Christo et Ecclesia" were used at its dedication, in its first law of government, as its coat-of-arms, in an indictment...