Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...benefit in the several theme and thesis courses also, to prepare a bag for slips on every topic assigned to be written on. And lastly, under each label on the outside of each bag could be written cross-reference to other bags, and, perhaps, brief bibliographies referring to more formal works on the same topic...
...that the Devil became truly grand. Here he is represented as comparatively free, warring against the Almighty, detiant even when conquered by 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...
After Milton comes the classical age, and the Christian mythology ceases to inspire poetry. The classical poets return to the dead and formal use of the personifications and abstractions of the heathen mythology. We have the Devil of De Foe's matter-of-fact "History;" but here the Devil is the old popular Devil with the horns, tail, and cloven foot, which he acquired in the Middle Ages period of his evolution, His principal occupation is to play the devil with old women and other simple people, and we find little new in him. This same Devil has appeared from...
...elaborate programme for the convention has been arranged by the Harvard men. On Friday, the 20th, there will be an informal meeting held at 4 P. M., at which the delegates will be received. In the evening the formal opening of the convention will take place, the Rev. A. P. Peabody, D. D., making the principal address. He will be followed by the Rev. Phillips Brooks and Mr. Russell Sturgis, president of the Boston...
...York, to have a special meeting immediately after Thanksgiving, in place of the regular meeting. To this of course the delegates willingly consented, the meeting was held, and the question of the championship was decided, i. e., there was declared to be no championship for 1884. This decision was formal and final. The question has been disposed of and will not come up again for consideration...