Word: dis
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After calling attention to several dis...
...allegory of the eighth and ninth cantos of the Inferno; the City of Dis, its demons, the Furies, Medusa, the opposition to the entrance of the Poets; the heavenly messenger...
...different degrees of scholarship appointments in '96. The first game was played Thursday between the Philosophicals and the Second Colloquies (lowest grade), and was won by the latter after quite an interesting and close struggle; score 12 to 11. The men who received no appointments have organized a "Dis-Appointment" team, which will play the winner of the inter-appointment series. The high-stand society of Phi Beta Kappa is arranging a baseball game with the similar society of Sigma Xi, in Sheff., and has also received a challenge from the "Dis-Appointments," who have constituted themselves the society...
...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...
...gave merely a sketch of the dis...