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These mourners of Isaac Friedman were of the Hasidim, a cult of Judaism that had its origin among the Polish Jews in the 18th Century, as a movement of popular protest against the strict ritualism and insistence upon the immutability of the law as propounded by the Talmudists, or orthodox rabbis, whom the Hasidim call the Mitnaggedim, or "opposition." The belief in the miraculous powers of their rabbis, and in the blood-kinship with David of a line of rabbis now represented by Isaac Friedman's 17-year-old son, is essentially mystical and emotional in character. Orthodox Jews...
...Court, basing its decision on the spirit and intent of the codicil, decided against the contention of the companies and ruled that not every debt in a strict legal sense was meant. The word "forgive," declared the judge, introduced a personal note...
...launches were taken out of the water a week ago, when a cold snap covered the Charles with a thin sheet of ice, and Coach Stevens is deprived of giving the eights his strict personal supervision. This has not hindered the usual practice sessions, and Coach Stevens stated recently that he will continue rowing as long as weather conditions permit, and as long as the present degree of progress keeps up. He reiterated his former statement that his crews this fall are so far superior to those of last year that there is no basis for comparison...
...does not seem to me to hold good us a reason for jealousy or the part of the Continental nations. For with them, in a good many cases, it is not a matter of coaches and masseurs and trainers, but a matter of a personal dislike toward going into strict "training" for any event. I defy the best coach in the world to make a consistent winner out of any man whose ideas of an athletic contest are irretrievably coupled with a gala celebration the night before the event, and cigarettes and pipes up to the time he steps into...
Appended to the report is a long list of suggestions, by which the committee hopes to remedy the present conditions. Among these are requests that the various colleges urge the police to be more strict in its attitude towards "street walkers, mashers, and drunkenness"; and that schools should provide rooming houses "in which only students of one sex should live...