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...Technology sports, coming as they do a week before our first Winter Meeting, afford an excellent chance for Harvard men to try their mettle with representatives of Boston clubs, and thus to get valuable practice on the eve of our winter sports. This year there were an unusually large number of Harvard representatives, as is shown by the following events in which they took part...
...significance of this action by the students is better understood when it is remembered that there are no secret societies or visible bonds to unite the alumni to the college. This committee is designed to supply in part this lack." -N. Y. Eve. Post...
...superior force. I am far from joining in the general admiration for "Paradise Lost." The poem, except the part which deals with Satan, seems to me exceedingly formal and wanting in true inspiration. God and the whole heavenly council talk like the divines of the Westminster Assembly. Adam and Eve are a typical Puritan and his wife. The heavenly and infernal hosts fight a sort of celestial Marston Moor or Naseby, which is finally won for the Parliament and Calvinism by a dashing charge of the celestial Ironsides led by Christinstead of Cromwell. But the character of Satan is truly...
...Romans, and the Oriental nations, all had conceptions of spirits of evil of one kind or another, but all quite distinct from the Devil. The Old Testament contains a character very slightly sketched, which Christians have generally identified with the Devil. But the spirit of evil who tempted Eve and visited heaven to dispute with the Almighty is only the suggestion of a character which the Christian imagination of the Middle Ages could alone fully create...
There are one or two customs of unique character retained at Oxford during Christmastide. At Magdalen College a quaint and remarkable entertainment is given on Christmas Eve. The company assemble in the college hall about nine o'clock in the evening, and the choir at once proceed to sing part of Handel's "Messiah." Soon after ten o'clock, a short interval is allowed for supper, during which the little candles on the vast Christmas tree are lighted; and then, the gas being turned down, the choir commence singing Christmas carols, until the great bell in the tower booms...