Word: ritualized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...exercises heralding his farewell to Harvard, latent but almost never nonexistent. The very man who attempted through ennui to turn over a Brighton street car the night his Spread dance is found in the forefront of his class five years later hurling confetti at the Stadium jumping pits. The ritual of departure, prolonged as it may seem to the Senior, is the creation of men who have realized its too actual brevity when reviewed later by a graduate nostalgic from bond-selling or cupon-clipping...
Married. Michael Arlen, Armenian novelist (The Green Hat), of London; to Countess Atalanta Mercati; 22, daughter of Count Alexandre Mercati, former Chamberlain of the Court of Greece; at the Greek Orthodox Church, Cannes, France. During the elaborate ritual in which the bride relinquished her title for the official name of Mrs. Dikran Kuumjian, her gown caught fire from a burning ikon, was quickly extinguished. Only one prominent citizen of Cannes was absent: Mayor Andre Capron, 76, ill of shock suffered when a demented woman fired at him the morning of the ceremony...
Reformed Jewry holds its services in the U. S. in English, on Sunday instead of Saturday, with little oldtime ritual, with stress on current cultural developments. Orthodox Jewry holds tightly to tradition, regulates itself largely by the Talmud. In between these two is Conservative Jewry...
...also encouraging men to do more individual work, although this entails increased faculty Ritual class work is not required for honor men, with the expectation that more effort will be spent in individual study...
...patriotism glow in its frigid bosom. To be specific. Did the Flag, the Stars and Stripes of the American Republic, wave over University Hall on February 22 last? Yes, it did wave from two o'clock in the afternoon until six P. M. A feeble display of the ritual was carried out without that deep sincerity which should have had the flag out and flying at least a week before and a week after the date, February 22. If loyalty really were in the hearts of Harvard men they would have walked bare-headed through the yard with the Battle...