Word: priests
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...WEDNESDAY.Boylston Chemical Club. The Chemistry of Tanning. Mr. G. W. Priest. Boylston...
...recollect how Sir Henry Maine says that all early codes were marked by an inflexible rigidity, because their rules were thought to have come down from Heaven itself. To most football players the suggestion of a radical change in the game seems about as impious as to ask a Priest of Menu to say his prayers without washing his feet...
...entire infield of last year will remain practically intact. Rich, who played second base, will not be back, but his place will be taken by Diehl, who, though substitute last year, played in a large number of games. In the battery it is hoped that Priest, the famous old Cornell pitcher, will again take the position. He is in college again, and if he can be induced to play Cornell will have one of the best pitchers on the college diamond. The position of catcher will be harder to fill in the absence of Captain Young of last year...
...these more important aspects of the play there is another not uninteresting to Latin students. The whole is given with the comparatively lately adopted 'Roman pronunciation.' Many persons are wont to ridicule this method, simply because their ears are unaccustomed to it. They prefer the mumpsimus of the ignorant priest to the sumpsimus of the Latin ritual. The sooner such persons, or any persons for that matter, become accustomed to the right way, the sooner they will find that there is no more difficulty and no less enjoyment in this than in the old barbarous jargon. For the English pronunciation...
...service in Appleton Chapel tomorrow night will be noteworthy. Catholic priests have before this given lectures before members of the University, and last summer Bishop Keane received a Harvard degree; but not for many years, and, so far as can be ascertained, not since the foundation of the college has a regular religious service of the University been conducted by an ordained Catholic priest. The fact that the Reverend Peter J. O'Callaghan graduated from the college a few years ago will make the occasion still more interesting. A better indication than this of the broad tolerance which Harvard exercises...