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...cool brew in a warm tavern. Young gentlemen at the College of William and Mary in revolutionary Virginia drew up plans for a society of good fellowship and spirited debate. (Sample topic: "Whether Polygamy is a dictate of Nature or not.") They devised a secret handshake and an initiation rite. The group, in fact, might have ended up as just one more fraternity but for a sober motto-and philosophy-based on the Greek letters ΦBK : "love of wisdom the guide of life." The Virginia chapter collapsed after only five years, in 1781, but not before it had sent...
...ceremony took place at Patrick's Point State Park, and for the Yuroks, a small tribe of California Indians, it was an especially important rite. After years of anguished protest, they had finally recovered the bones of their ancestors, plundered by scientists and amateur collectors, and reburied them in sacred soil. But for many California scientists, especially archaeologists and anthropologists, the ceremony had a different meaning: it was the latest episode in a continuing battle over the right of researchers to study America's distant past...
...Washington rite of passage: a member of the President's inner council leaves under fire. His departure certifies that the new Administration is no longer new. Collisions with reality are forcing changes in personnel as well as modifications of policy. Post-Inaugural hopes and dreams are turning into a series of adaptations to unforeseen pressures and challenges...
Lampoon officers deny the existence of the semiannual rite. "I have no idea what you're talking about," John P. Ziaukus '82, the Lampoon's "Ibis," said of Phools' Week. "I really couldn't conceive of any such thing," he added...
...celebrated on December 25 ever since Mary placed the Christ child in a manger. Unfortunately, historical documents, legend and law prove this widespread rumor unfounded. Books on the history of Christmas and on holiday traditions show that Christmas festivities have as firm a root in pagan ritual as Christian rite and that Massachusetts itself at one time played the grinch...