Word: ritualistically
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Honorable mentions in the undergraduate division of the Bowdoin prizes went to Foote, who wrote a second piece, on "Father Hopkins: A Ritualist in Poetry"; Michael Roemer '49 for "Heartbreak House": and Walter S. Frank '49 for "The Tragic Equation: A Study of Marlowe's 'Faustus' and Goethe's 'Faust...
First the Emperor himself formally notified the spirits enshrined in the three sanctuaries of the Imperial palace. Then Prince Kimiteru Sanjo, court ritualist, took a full day at the Ise shrine, notifying the spirits of the outer shrine in the morning, the inner shrine in the afternoon. Count Kinto Muromachi passed the word to Hirohito's first Imperial ancestor, Jimmu, great-great-grandfather Ninko, greatgrandfather Komei and grandfather Meiji...
Also ready were the Grand Chamberlain, Admiral Suzuki; the Chief Ritualist, Prince Sanjo and the Minister of the Imperial Household, Viscount Yuasa...
Punctually at 10:30 a. m. the Sublime Emperor handed to the Grand Chamberlain a block of white wood. Upon it His Majesty had painted with delicate brush strokes the name considered most auspicious by the Chief Ritualist...
Emerging, the Grand Chamberlain announced that the name was indeed Akihito Tsugu no Miya. The Chief Ritualist departed with seemly haste to make this known to the Sun Goddess and other ancestors of the Imperial House. Not until 11 a. m. was the name entered in the register of the Imperial Household by the Minister of the Imperial Household. Not until it had been so entered was word flashed to Japanese cruisers in Tokyo bay to blaze away a 21 gun* salute while Tokyo sirens screamed and the whole metropolis joined in a thrice-repeated shout of Banzai...