Word: devil
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hollis.- Beginning Monday, April 11, Richard Mansfield: Mon., Tues.; and Wednesday evenings and Saturday matinee, "The Devil's Disciple"; Thu.evening, "A Parisian Romance"; Friday evening, "Beau Brummel"; Saturday evening, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...
Other entertaining stories are "For Unknown Reasons," by A. S. Pier '95; "On the Way to Sweet Auburn," by Townsend Walsh '95; "The Sleeping Car," Willis Munro '95; "The Restoration of the Pipes," H. H. Chamberlin '95; "Little Sister," Louis How '95; "God, Man and the Devil," L. W. Mott '96; "On a Paris Omnibus," J. A. Gade '96, "The Law Breaker," by Phillip Richards '96, and "The Wrong Scent," A. C. Train '96. Perhaps no collection of stories has ever been published that so truly represents different phases and characteristics of college life, particularly of Harvard life. The book...
...staging of the opera was splendid; 'Devil's Rock at the Cave Entrance' was as well built, and as aptly realistic as any piece of scenery ever set in place behind the lights of that house; which is saying a good deal. And the calibre of the company's exhibition was no less remarkable than the fact of their adaptability to continual renewals of repertoire. The genuine vigor with which the Castle Square company carries its kaleidoscopic work is certainly curious to note. And the voices and pantomime of the principals seem, beyond understanding, to improve under each week...
...Moxom, D. D., preached last night in Appleton Chapel from the text: "He that has been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him. But Jesus suffered him not." St. Mark v, 18-20. Dr. Moxom spoke as follows: "All the cases of demoniacal possession mentioned in the New Testament were doubtless cases of insanity. The one mentioned in the text was especially violent, and was regarded with a kind of superstitious veneration peculiar to the East. When the man was healed of his infirmity, he wished to show his devotion to Jesus and to follow...
...lines, taking mythological dramatis personae and the gist of an old myth, and burlesquing the whole by the introduction of all sorts of modern matter. And in this he has shown a very keen eye for caricature. Take, for instance, his fusion of the Greek Pluto with the modern Devil, of Hades with Hell, and then further burlesquing the composite by making Hell a sort of modern hotel, into which no sinless person can obtain admission; this is excellent burlesque. His working-out of this comic donnee is as ingenious and clever in detail as the idea itself. Of course...