Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ritual of Dining in Hall...
...related to the real purposes of the university and no predilections one way or the other in the matter; it seems unfortunate that at least one consideration has been overlooked in the discussion of the ways and means of conducting those more or less solemn rituals around which these discussions and--presumably, if one may judge from them--our intellectual processes are henceforth in some fashion to revolve that is to say the meals. It is that, for nearly 300 years, the students of Harvard College have, in fact, had the curious custom of eating together in one fashion...
...years old, despoiled by robbers, but still in a decent state of preservation. Queen Meryet-Amun (1480-40 B.C.) died soon after her coronation. Her body was prepared and wrapped in many thicknesses of bandage. The inner coffin which covered her corpse was decorated, according to Egyptian ritual, with a replica of her body. On the forehead was the tenon hole which had held the stolen vulture-head coronet, symbol of queenly power. The outer coffin, masterpiece of joiner's art, at one time encased in gold sheets, lying undisturbed for centuries in the dark crypt, "created an eerie...