Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third question addressed to college presidents evoked answers of moment. It concerns the change of student religious interest since 1900. All the educators who did not deny that change had occurred, tried to explain the change they discerned, in optimistic terms. Some said that ritual devotion had given way to social service; others that the critical faculty in students had made them less doctrinaire: still others saw improvement on general and diverse grounds...
That the end of a "Keys" ritual consists in marching out upon the steps of the tomb and singing the society's private song, "Gaily the Troubadour." (Of a frosty winter's evening in New Haven, Conn., or after the wedding of a "Keys" man, auditors of all ages and affiliations whatever will stand to listen to this ringing chanson, the rendition of which is invariably exceptionally fine, as "Keys" seldom fails to enroll one or more of the best voices in each class...
This and its daughter societies here and abroad have no creed, no polity, no church, no ritual. Members meet as freely cooperating individuals who respect their own persons and ideals and those of others...
There is reason to believe that some of the impressions of this sign were put in Maya buildings after the conquest: in short that here is a tangible piece of the old ritual remembered by degenerate descendants of great ancestors. On Cozumel Island our expedition found examples of the red hand so conventionalized by the artist that the five fingers looked like five petals of a flower or the five flames of a lamp...
...perform the rite of washing his subjects' feet; but since the time of Charles II "Maundy Pennies" (especially minted without milled edges) have been distributed by the Lord High Almoner. In all Catholic countries and at the Vatican the rites of Maundy Thursday are elaborately observed, although the ritual varies...