Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...service, which was conducted by the Reverend Samuel McChord Crothers of the First Unitarian Church of Cambridge, was marked by its brevity and the absence of an elaborate ritual. About 12.30 o'clock the coffin was carried by the nephews of the late Major Higginson as far as the door of the chapel, where their places were taken by the undergraduate pallbearers, R. W. Emmons, 2nd. '20, H. S. Walker '20, F. Workum '20, J. N. Borland '21. W. Davis '21, and C. C. Buell...
...which strikes one in connection with the ruinous telephone tie-up which began yesterday morning is, of course, that the strike must be ended, quickly, and at almost any cost. The fault of the situation seems to lie for the most part in the endless "red tape" and departmental ritual of the Post Office Department. The patient and fairly moderate demands of the operators for an inquiry on the part of some thoroughly impartial tribunal were repeatedly held up, and delayed, and referred on. Mr. Burleson has admitted that there is justice in their demands, but does not seem...
...about 40 Congressmen, former President William Howard Taft, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, former Justice Charles Evens Hughes, General Peyton C. March, and a delegation of Rough Riders who served under Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. There was no music and no eulogy. The only departure from the ritual was the reciting by the rector of Colonel Roosevelt's favorite hymn: "How Firm a Foundation." During the day Army airplanes hovered over the grounds of the Roosevelt home...
...command and with such a corps of instructors. Eleven hundred students, nearly the half of all Harvard's enrollment, have joined the regiment's ranks. Today, when they greeted the Secretary of War, they were already prepared to pass before him not alone in the polite ritual of the formal reviewing drill, but to enact for him, on the manoeuvre ground at Fresh Pond illustrations of the actual tactics employed in battle as battles are fought today on the West front. It is even probable that the review enjoyed the distinction of being the first yet shown Mr. Baker...
...Ritual Hymns of the Greeks...