Word: equinox
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Only slightly less ignorant than the peons of Tehuantepec were folk and newspapers that talked about the Equinox in connection with these earthquakes; or with a howling hurricane that last week swept Louisiana, torrential rains that flooded Illinois, Iowa, Missouri; with a tornado in Nebraska and Kansas; with the worst typhoon of years in Japan (100 killed); and other portents of the week. In the first place, it was not yet the Equinox, which comes Sept. 21-25, when the earth reaches a tilt in the heavens such that the plane of its equator passes through the sun, making...
When suddenly I discovered the reason for the cameras. It seems that there is a custom in Cambridge when April with her showers sleety has allowed a short hiatus in the vernal equinox--and the custom is this, young and old tall and short, discreet and indefinite--all take each other's picture. Where proud the shaft of the monument on the common lifts its granite head, there I saw two girls with their boy friends taking each other's pictures with frank abandon. So mirror will be the richer soon by one enlarged, unretouched photograph of Mazie...
...year, yet is a variable holiday fixed for each year by a complicated equation of epacts, dominical letters and Golden Numbers. It falls on the first Sunday after the Pascal full moon, that is, the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21 (the vernal equinox). Therefore Easter cannot come before March 22 or after April 25. This inconstancy of Eastertide has irritated money-grubbing merchants, who long have surreptitiously, indirectly exported the spirited, springtime* surge of joy, light and purity felt by celebrants. People have stepped from decorating their altars to decking their bodies, until...
Certain phenomena recur so regularly and impressively that they become institutions: the Boston Transcript, the equinox, presidential elections, and the Harvard-Yale football game. Just fifty years ago, Harvard and Yale first matched strength and skill against each other on the football field, playing under rules manufactured for the occasion out of the old Rugby game. No one could have foreseen that that game was to initiate the sport, which now sets the whole nation in a frenzy every autumn. Many there are who now believe that the glorification of football has gone too far. But this theoretical question aside...
...time it may have reminded people of what an arbitrary and imperfect thing the Gregorian calendar is. Although Caesa, and Pope Gregery put it inot fair harmony with the solar year, it is full of odd quirks. For instance it begirs on January first instead of with the vernal equinox because the Renaissance advanced the entrance of the consuls into office, their official opening of the new year, to get some respectable generals for a war. Then Easter depends upon the full moon, not because the Jewish Passover did, but because at the time of the Council of Nicea, navigators...