Word: kinship
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...Their kinship to their autumn cousins is evidently distant. It may be that the brisk fall air imbues the college with a love of system. It may also be that examinations in October fill a more substantial need than examinations in March. For the fall brings back to academic pursuits a host of men who have whiled away the summertime in physical exertion or passive vagabondage. Perhaps examinations in late October can tell whether or not they have returned in spirit as in person...
...evolution of society, any step toward the cloistering of knowledge or toward its segregation from what is practical, should be discouraged. The Law School investigation, on the other hand, becomes an example of the highest service which a university can hope to render. It bears a close kinship to the spirit which has imbued the American graduate school in its recent development. It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of this application by a university of its expert minds to the solution of problems which affect equally each unit of the society in which they arise...
...Cross: "The Episcopal Church has its roots in the original Apostolic foundation; its ministries and its formularies are to be traced back to Apostolic beginnings. It is essentially a part of the one, true, holy and Apostolic Church. It is not Protestant; it is Catholic, and therefore has no kinship with the Protestant bodies...
...Capetown cable must certainly have carried to London the significance of this revolt. Perhaps the knights and baronets and others of the beribboned bosom will feel a slight, well-hidden blush at their kinship with less civilized but just as happy cousins of the Bush...
...18th Century, as a movement of popular protest against the strict ritualism and insistence upon the immutability of the law as propounded by the Talmudists, or orthodox rabbis, whom the Hasidim call the Mitnaggedim, or "opposition." The belief in the miraculous powers of their rabbis, and in the blood-kinship with David of a line of rabbis now represented by Isaac Friedman's 17-year-old son, is essentially mystical and emotional in character. Orthodox Jews regard the cult as moribund, but admit its value and influence in the past. "Chief Grand Rabbi," say the orthodox, is meaningless...