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...fanfare of trumpets and the procession re-formed and wound its way to the Chapel of Edward the Confessor, patron of the Order, to lay the gold on the altar there. The Dean delivered himself of a brief address and the choir sang the 68th Psalm to a harmonized Gregorian chant. The Order then marched in solemn procession around the Abbey and with the laying of a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the "most impressive ceremony the old Abbey had seen for centuries" was over...
Millions, members of the Eastern Orthodox Church, went to sleep on Oct. 13, thinking it was Sept. 30. They woke up to find the new day Oct. 14. The Gregorian Calendar (used in the rest of Christendom) had been substituted for their more ancient Julian. The one was instituted by Pope Gregory XIII, in 1582 A. D., the other by Julius Caesar...
When a few days ago some two hundred million people were cheated out of theirteen days of their lives by the change of the Orthodox Greek Churches from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, the fearful wail that must have gone forth can easily be imagined by the Daylight Saving "grousers" At the same 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...
...Define the following terms: Loess, rain-shadow, equinox, cyclone, dry-farming, phylloxera, water table, solstice, Gregorian calendar...
...viola soloist, Mr. Hugo Kortschak, will give a concert this evening at 8.15 in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building under the auspices of the Department of Music. The quartet will present the following program: Quartet in D major, Op. 76, No. 5 Haydn Gregorian Quartet in One Movement David Stanley Smith Quintet for Two Violins, Two Violas and 'Cello Brahms...