Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Common Misconceptions of "Inferno...
...Harvard Mathematical Club. Mr. P. M. Batchelder will speak in the Common Room of Conant Hall...
...Bishop then proceeded to refute two common misconceptions of the "Inferno." The horrors of an inferno are not, as is often supposed, the invention of Dante. "Dante took the current notions of his day and poured over them the irresistible charm of his genius." It is also a misconception to consider the horrors of the "Inferno" unimportant. The notion of a place of retribution hereafter has always been in the mind of man; and, such a widespread conception should be taken into account accordingly. It stands for the human sense of justice, and is indicative of the extraordinary human faculty...
...world's greatest living philosophers. His lecture will be of especial interest to those who have heard the recent addresses of Professor Rudolf Eucken here; for both of these great philosophers, who have lately aroused a great interest in the student world, have something in common...
...that a man must choose his Faculty Adviser on a random guess in the summer before beginning his Freshman year. Between a man who in his Freshman year develops a taste for Applied Science and an Adviser in the Department of Romance Languages there can obviously be little in common. In such cases, it would be well to establish a general rule allowing men to petition for a change of advisers at the end of their Freshman year...