Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...services at Harvard, he remarked, in point of decorum and impressiveness were not surpassed by any other similar service in the world so far as he was aware; not even in any of the university chapels or cathedrals of England where so much attention is paid to matters of ritual...
...under which they are held. A college, which in other matters distinctly disowns the paternal theory of college government makes but and ill showing in insisting upon preserving the anomaly of compulsory religious services. Almost nowhere else in the civilized world are men forced, to conform to a religious ritual despite their own wishes or the wishes of their parents or guardians. To believe that any improvement in the character of the service is bound to reconcile the college to its involuntary bondage and to remove the anomalous character of the proceeding is absurd. In everything else the college refuses...
Prof. Lyon lectures in Divinity Hall lecture room on "Temples and Ritual," at 12 M. today...
...THURSDAY.Assyrian Antiquities. Special subject: Temples and Ritual. Prof. Lyon. Divinity Hall Upper Lecture Room...