Word: climb
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...allegorical significance of this introduction to the Inferno is plain. Dante finds himself wandering helplessly in the dark, wretched forest of evil, and in order to reach the light attempts to climb the mountain of virtue, but is met and repulsed by passion and sensuality in the form of wild animals. He then meets reason in the person of Vergil, which shows him that the process of redemption is slow, and is not to be achieved by one great effort. He must rise through the purgatory of penitence. Dante tells us that there are many senses to his poem. Beside...
...career the sinners that have subjected reason to lust. They came at length to a broad flood, where lost wretches are struggling with the waters, as the poets cross, the sinners reach up imploring hands to them, while the savage boatman flings back those who try to climb upon the boat, bidding them go back to the other dogs...
...over with quotations, his temper is essentially modern, indeed, he is the first of the properly modern writers. It is not as ladders to the languages in which they are written that I would commend these books, but the languages as ladders to them, where by we may climb to a larger outlook over men and things, to a retreat lifted above the noises of the world. It is not the scholarship I look at, but the sympathy with their higher mood, with that sweetness that comes with age to good books as to good men. Mere scholarship...
...time and health and faculties? Du gleichst dem Geist den du begreifst, says the World Spirit to Faust, and this is true of the ascending no less than of the descending scale. Every book we read may be made a round in the ever-lengthening ladder by which we climb to knowledge and to that temperance and serenity of mind which, as it is the ripest fruit of Wisdom, is also the sweetest. But this can only be if we read such books as make us think, and read them in such a way as helps them...
...That tale which would prove the most interesting to Harvard men is "A Christmas Ascent of Mount Adams," and because the author is himself an undergraduate - J. Corbin '92. The story is the description of an ascent of a mountain and deals almost entirely with the account of the climb and return. It is in parts cleverly written and is interesting, which is always praise. Walter Camp contributes a practical article on "Training." He points out the difference in the meaning of the term "training" now and what it was some years ago, but the main part of his article...