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...Dei Sub Numine Viget...
...Dante Della Terza, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, the earthquake which struck southern Italy nine days ago has been a personal tragedy. The quake leveled his hometown of Sant Angelo dei Lombardi, killing one-fourth of the town's inhabitants...
...proud and honored to be a priest and a Jesuit," he said by way of explanation. Later that day he was greeted by his staff in Washington with a large banner that read: WE TOO ARE PROUD AND HONORED. Then he quoted the Jesuit motto: Ad majorem Dei gloriam (for the greater glory of God). Said Grossman: "The church is his life, his heart. He never once considered defiance...
...occurs between the Crimson goalposts. And no Princetonian has ever narrowed his view and his allegiance to the football field. Nor are their ties limited to the scope of the class notes in the Princeton Alumni Weekly. For dressed in tweeds and argyles, the alumni cherish their university "Sub Dei...
...turn over in their graves. It will not be an act of inhospitality, mind you (even in death they are too well-bred for that), simply one of incredulity that in the land of the Bean and the Cod, he who is called Summus Pontifex, Vicarius Petri, Servus Servorum Dei, Dominus Deus, Nostra Papa, and addressed as Sanctissime Pater should be here. Their amazement is only matched...