Word: edict
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...resignation of Professor Albert Bushnell Hart from the University has as its most minor result the edict from the managing editor bidding me to cramp my style this morning. Professor Hart has long been a friend to academic vagabonds, and it would be hard to give him higher praise than to say that he has given many of them a purpose and a reason in their strolling...
...President Otto Mees of Capital University (Columbus, Ohio) designated one day last week as a holiday. It is to appear in the college calendar annually hereafter, the first Friday after Christmas vacation. On it the students will be expected to pay their debts, collect their loans, among themselves. The edict on this "Debt Limitations Day" made no mention of worried druggists, gasoline venders, mournful hash-housekeepers, candy men, laundresses, Smoke Shoppe proprietors, collegiate outfitters...
Throughout the land headlines blared RABBI WISE SAYS JEWS SHOULD ACCEPT JESUS. As the implication of those words sank in, Jews became excited and commenced to flay famed Manhattan Rabbi Stephen S. Wise right and left. The Agudath Harabonim* issued an edict against him. Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, professor of the Talmud at the New York Jewish Theological Seminary, declared: "Rabbi Wise does not represent the beliefs of a majority of Jews...
...been considered sacrilegious, especially as many non-Turks of the foreign diplomatic corps were present. So great is the ascendancy of Mustafa Kemal at present, however, that all the members of his Cabinet and their wives, as well as the leaders of Young Turk society, conformed docilely to his edict...
Rama VI, King of Siam, having issued a decree "demoting" his childless Queen (TIME, Oct. 26), blazoned another edict in the Siamese Official Gazette last week, and "promoted" handsome Chao Chom Suvadena to that rank...