Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...change their opinion. Under present conditions, English A must be regarded as a necessity, though a very disagreeable one, and somewhat shameful. At once, then, the question arises whether the conditions might not be changed; whether boys might not in some way be taught to write English before they come to college. Reform in this direction has been begun. The most effective way of hastening it would be by greatly stiffening the entrance examination and refusing to allow an entrance condition in English. Such measures are more extreme, however, than Harvard can afford. They would result in dwarfing the freshman...
...time of Dante's wonderful journey through the spiritual realms was in the year 1300. On an afternoon in April he found himself wandering in a deep gloomy forest, not knowing how he had come there or where he was. His mind seemed weighed down with heaviness as if he had just awakened from a deep sleep. After trying for some time to find his way out of the wood, he came at length to the foot of a mountain, over which the sun was setting, spreading its red gold rays in a beautiful glow upon the summit. The poet...
...declares he will follow him and will trust him. The poets enter through the gate, which bears the onmious inscription, "Leave hope, ye who enter here," and came into a scene of suffering and lamentation. Passing through the first great crowd of moaning wretches, and crossing the Charon, they come among the souls that are suffering penance for original sin, and no other guilt. Thence they advance into a second circle, at the entrance to which stands Minos, who assigns to the spirits their proper places in Hell. Leaving Minos they continue along a rocky cliff, past which rushes...
...last scene of the poets' journey through Hell is the most horrible. After passing through the lowest circles, they come upon a frozen pool, in which incased in the ice are the traitors of various degrees. By this pool they meet and conquer Dis, or Satan, once the fairest of Heaven's angles. The picture of Satan is the most horrible and monstrous to be found in the work. After leaving Dis they turn their faces upward till at length they come forth upon the surface of the earth to see again the stars...
Only the following men come out to-day in addition to the men at the training table: Morton, Cozzens, McCarthy, Scott, G. L. Wrenn, Lord, Burgess...