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Last week that rare and awful punishment, an interdict, brooded like a judgment over a Roman Catholic parish in Cleveland. Closed was Holy Redeemer Church. Cut off from the sacraments of marriage, of Holy Communion, of penance, of ordination, were its 1,100 Italian families: no baptisms, no confirmations, no parochial school. Only one sacrament was left in Holy Redeemer parish: Extreme Unction, which the Church gives to all its children-good, bad, or indifferent-who are about...
...sentiment favored McClellan's reinstatement, caused "Sep" Winner to write Give Us Back Our Old Commander: Little Mac, the People's Pride. Copies of the song were confiscated; Winner was almost jailed for treason, but the song swept through the whole Union Army. In spite of the interdict, Julia Mortimer sang it in Ford's Theatre in Washington. Give Us Back Our Old Commander was used as a campaign song when McClellan ran for President against Lincoln in 1864, used again, with the name changed, when Grant was considering a third term...
...peaceably to all these military threats, if they act legally and quietly there is little doubt that they will gain in prestige, for Governor Walton's tactics are anything but popular in his own state. But if they try to override the law--or in this case the direct interdict of the President of the United States--they will lose whatever sympathy they have in the rest of the country. Their former acts in Oklahoma, which have largely brought about the present situation, have been of a nature to alienate public sentiment. But in other cases, such as in their...
Professor Krehbiel, who was for a time a student at the University, is a director of the Intercollegiate Peace Association, and a member of the advisory board of the World Peace Foundation of Boston. He has written numerous books among which are "The Interdict," "Sixty-Seven Reasons for the Navy League" and "Syllabus of Lectures on International Conciliation," with David Starr Jordan...
...difficulty is here; there is a feeling in the minds of many of our older graduates against the New York games. If a game in which Harvard played there should be attended by any scandals, I should expect the Corporation and Overseers to interdict any further playing in New York. For this reason we suggested a two year's arrangements in foot ball with you, regarding the New York game as experimental...