Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gregorian Chants by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes (Victor, $24)?Preferred ritual music of the Roman Catholic Church (its arrangement is attributed to Pope Gregory I), sung in the preferred...
Such an informal, unhampered access to the advantages of the University is in direct contrast to the established ritual required of those passing through the mill, grinding out its yearly crop of Ph. D.'s. It might be suggested that the Commonwealth scholars derive as much advantage from their unconventional methods of study as those earnest young men whose end in life is to enjoy the prestige of a Doctorship...
...Already many a rabbi without a post is canvassing unchurched Jews to buy seat tickets in his temporary schnl'. On the other hand the unchurched, after trying vainly to buy seats in regular synagogs, are seeking to hire rabbis to lead them in high holiday ritual. This is basically not very difficult, for many a European-born Jew was educated for the rabbinate because secular schools would not receive him, because many a Jewish family like many a Roman Catholic family expects particular favors from God by giving a son to the church. The consequent production of rabbis became...
...Last week at Ivy Hall, home of William Grimsley Wood near Culpepper, Va., assembled 35 Confederate veterans for a reunion. They had no club, no ritual, but mint juleps in frosted silver mugs were served them generously. The password: "Where's Brandy Station?" Alexander Fontaine Rose, 84, of Mosby's Brigade, did some spirited dancing. Oldest veteran: John L. Poe, 92, 49th Virginia Cavalry. Honor guest: Mrs. Eliza ("Mother") Crim, famed Confederate nurse at the Battle of Newmarket...
Last week Dr. David de Sola Pool, rabbi of Manhattan's Spanish & Portuguese Synagog, presided over the Union of Sephardic Congregations.? The chief problems are to make a new English translation of their Hebrew prayer book; to organize a U. S. school to train rabbis in their ritual, which is slightly different from the Ashkenazic ritual. (Sephardic rabbis now must be imported. Rabbi Pool was trained in England...