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...Does the Edict of Kiersy mark the real beginning of Feudalism in France...
...officers of the musical clubs deserve credit for their efforts to keep up the interest of the members, which, for a time, it was feared would be very much lessened by the Faculty's edict against the Christmas trip. It would be a sorry admission to make and nothing could be farther from the truth than to say that the musical clubs could not be maintained successfully without the western tours. But as a matter of fact the latter did give a decided stimulus to the work of the winter season; and the members who had hitherto been spurred...
Years before Dudley came to Harvard College there were in New England a number of French Huguenots driven into exile by the edict of Nantes. The story of their sufferings on account of their faith awakened the sympathy of the New Englanders. The Indian massacres, which wrought such havoc on the quiet New England settlements, were believed to be instigated by the Jesuit priests in Canada. These facts account for Judge Dudley's bitterness toward the Catholics...
...revocation of the Edict of Nantes justifiable from a political point of view...
...more dinners for Harvard undergraduates at Young's or Parker's is the edict of the landlord of those hotels...