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Traditionally, each recipient later donates an overcoat to an undergraduate in the succeeding college generation. Thayer recipients also pass on to one another a piece of parchment from the coat that Eliot originally gave to the shivering student...
...present with the estranged couple. In answer to the rabbis' questions, the couple give their names (in Hebrew), their parents' names, their residence, assurance that both husband and wife freely accede to the action. The scribe writes down the information in Aramaic on a piece of parchment, making sure that the decree comes out no longer than the twelve lines established by custom. When the scribe is finished, the document is handed to the husband, who gives it to the wife. A rabbi then tears the edges of the parchment, and the marriage is sundered. Cost: nothing...
...Latin parchment document of the papal bull began in the traditional way: "John, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God." Thus, on Christmas morning, Pope John XXIII was to convoke Vatican Council II-potentially an event in Roman Catholic history on the order of the Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople or Trent...
...Board of Overseers yesterday passed "with no serious objection" a newly designed 11-by-17-inch parchment diploma, printed in English but with a more ornate design than the controversial "modernized" diplomas issued last year...
...Vatican ranges across creeds and nations-from Nobel-prizewinning Physicist Sir James Chadwick, 70 (Church of England), to Hideki Yukawa, a Buddhist Nobelman from Japan.* Each man will receive a silver-gilt chain and medallion, and each will rate the Vatican title of excellency. From the Pope will come parchment proclamations addressing the Catholic scientists as "Dear Sir," the non-Catholics as "Famous Gentleman." And the varied salutations will be eloquent testimony to the Pontifical Academy's current catholicity of choice...