Word: ecclesiae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plays (The Ecclesiazusae), women, disguised as men, steal into the ecclesia, succeed in decreeing a new constitution-a satire on the general demoralization of public life...
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...