Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accordance with an annual custom, the Harvard Menorah Society will give a banquet this evening at 7 o'clock in the Hotel Lenox, at which several prominent speakers will address the society. Among the speakers will be Ludwig Lewisohn, Oswald Garrison Villard '93, Henry Hurwitz '08, and Professor D. G. Lyon...
Among the fall activities of the Mission one was the sending out of Christmas greeting cards to all Harvard graduates engaged in missionary work. That this custom is worth continuing is attested by the letters from many men who have appreciated the reminder of the season from us at Harvard...
This year the golf teams will practice at the Belmont Springs Country Club instead of at the Oakley Club, as has been the custom in the past. Informal practice will start at Belmont for all members of the squads this week, but team trials will not be held until after the spring recess...
...during which four small cups of sacramental wine are drunk by each member of the family. A dish in the center of the table contains a piece of lamb, and, in some families, horseradish. The lamb is not eaten, but is a survival of the ancient and abandoned custom of blood sacrifice as it was first practiced in Egypt. The horseradish signifies the bitter experiences of the Jews in slavery. According to custom, the youngest son of the family asks the father the reason for this feast and the father replies by reading the account of the Passover in Exodus...
...amazing custom of sati-burial, so revolting to moderns, according to which the members of the king's household killed themselves or were killed when he died, and were actually buried in the same tomb, prevailed at Meroe from the second century B. C. onwards, says Dr. Reisner...