Word: satan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club. This was followed by a prayer by Rev. Francis Peabody, after which Saint Saens' "Ave Verum" was sung. Rev. Lyman Abbott then delivered a short address taking for his text the temptation of Christ in the wilderness. The preacher drew a vivid picture of Christ's temptation by Satan and urged that Christ's example of fortitude be followed by every student. He declared that vanity and ambition were two faults especially to be avoided by students in a large university, and it was only by the most strenuous efforts that each student could live the life which looks...
...suppose that "H. H. D." had his wish and that all students, simply as such, were treated as above suspicion and examined without proctors. Suppose then that some of them, being tempted by Satan, were to cheat, and to be seen cheating. What I should like "H. H. D." to answer is this: What likelihood would there be, in the present state of college opinion, of such students being sent to Coventry, dropped from the various associations with which they might be connected, and made to feel generally they had disgraced themselves in the public eye? It is all very...
...Yale News congratulates the college on the fact that a last year's file of the News brought $5.00 at an auction at Phillips Andover, while the CRIMSON was carried away at an offer of $2.05. Even Satan is appreciated by his own angles...
...greatest Devil of all, from a literary point of view, seems to me to be Goethe's Mephistopheles. He has little in common with Milton's Satan. There is none of the grandeur, indomitable will, and unconquerable love of independence and power, which mark the creation of the great Puritan poet. This is the modern Devil. He has seen through this great humbug which men call the world. He has no desire to get himself into trouble by trying to overturn the powers that be. Of course they are all wrong, but then he likes to make an occasional morning...
...seems now very much as if the vein of the Devil had been worked as far as it can be, and the Satan of Milton and the Mephistopheles of Goe the were to remain forever the completes and most perfect literary embodiments of the conception of the Spirit of Evil. The Devil is unique in that although other Christian ideals have inspired the painter, the architect, and the sculptor, the Devil alone has made a permanent place for himself in the very first rank of literary master-pieces...