Word: christos
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...Potter sustains the Harvard students. He remarks : To those who object to the students' petition that to grant it would be to violate the purposes for which the college was founded, as expressed in the motto on its seal, Christo et Ecclesiae, the petitioners may reply that the oldest college seal, the one nearest the foundation of the college, had the simple but comprehensive motto, Veritas; and in the name of truth, they make their petition. Or, if the incongrous present seal be still held across their request, it would be in order for them to remind the objectors that...
...Gules); three open books (Argent) edges, covers clasps (Or), on the books the letters Ve-ri-tas (Sable). The seal contains a shield with the arms placed on a circular field (Or) on which the words Christo et Ecclesiae (Azure), and around the words Sigilium Academiae Harvardianae...
...only foolish, we should not mind so much, -we are used to it; -but when there is a contradiction between theory and practice from every point of view, then objection mist be raised. Of all things, we have a right to demand that, if the motto of the college, Christo et Ecclesiae, mean anything, it should not come to be the common scoff and fun if has been made. It can be only a mockery when it looks down from the stained-glass windows of the chapel, on men who have been forced into prayers against their will...
GLOEE THEATRE.-James O'Neill in "Monte Christo." Performance...
GLOBE THEATRE.-James O'Neill in "Monte Christo." Performance...