Word: rite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nearly every President of the U. S. (Calvin Coolidge is an exception) has been a Mason of high degree. President Harding was to have been "crowned " honorary member of the Supreme Council, Thirty-third Degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, at the Council's 111th annual meeting in Manhattan last week. He was looking forward "with most agreeable anticipation to being present at the meeting and receiving the crowning degree of Masonry...
...taken optionally in sequence, depending on a favorable ballot of those already accepted. As progress is made up- wards, the number accepted decreases rapidly. The four chief classes of degrees: "Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch," " Mark Grand Lodge," "Great Priory of Knights Templars," "Ancient and Accepted Rite." These are mutually complementary...
...Thirty-third degree occurs under the last-named class and is conferred only upon Master Masons of the Thirty-second degree in good standing. Deliberations of the Supreme Council determine the eligibility of candidates on the basis of their excellence as officers of subordinate divisions of the Scottish Rite "or other eminent service." Distinction is made between active and honorary members...
...over a report that the death of Prince Narihisa Kitashirakawa, who was recently killed in an automobile accident in France, necessitated some Japanese noble committing hara-kari -suicide. The late Prince was a brother-in-law of the Mikado, and, as the Councellor of the Embassy explained, the ancient rite of hara-kari is carried out by the Samurais only in the event of the death of the Mikado; lesser members of the royal family do not receive such homage. On April 29, 1909, Prince Kitashirakawa married the Mikado's second sister, Princess Fusako...
...claim the distinction of looking down on Life itself. But like most semi-centarians, the CRIMSON finds little time to sit back and wonder whether or not its existence has been futile; there is too much to be done. An anniversary is an occasion to be remembered, not a rite to be religiously carried our in the spirit of the past...