Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...total effect. The above metaphor is inserted in a simile and the sentence in which they occur contains some half dozen other similar brilliants. This galaxy tends to obscure rather than clarify the fact that Nicolette looked forth from a tower and dropped by a cord to the earth below. Incidentally the cord in this procedure becomes a "thread of lustre" and Nicolette "a drop of radiance." The mediaeval romancer in his description of this episode had instincts which were truer because simpler. Though Mr. Cummings' imagination makes Swinburne's seem sluggish, the glimpse of any imagination whatever...
...closely the Ptolemaic system of astronomy. There are seven heavens: the first seven are represented by the "seven planets of Ptolemy"; the eighth heaven by the fixed stars or milky way; the ninth heaven by a crystalline sphere; and the tenth by the Empyrion, which is the furthest from earth. In this structural system, Dante shows that the further we are from God the less capable we are of entering into His Spirit, and that as the Empyrion is the centre of the heavens, yet embracing them all so God is both centre and circumference...
...resting of the earth's shadow upon the first three planets, Dante shows with deep subtlety that the shadow of sin still rests upon the sinner no matter how well he may have shaken off his sin. In his description of the sun where the theologians dwell, Dante impresses the beautiful teaching of large hearted and Christian charity in judgment of our fellowmen. It is not for us but for God to judge...
...Widener Memorial Library, the first sod being turned by George D. Widener, of Philadelphia, the brother of Harry Elkins Widener '07, in whose memory the Library is being built. Mrs. George D. Widener, who is giving the building, was unable to be present to lift the first spadeful of earth herself. The ceremony was of the simplest sort, with no formal address of any kind. Guests included the Library staff, the Visiting Committee, and a few others. After Mr. Widener had broken the ground, spadefuls were turned up successively by President Lowell, Mr. W. C. Lane '87, the Librarian, Professor...
...George D. Widener, of Philadelphia, donor of the Widener Memorial Library will break ground for the new building today, turning up the first spade-full of earth at 12.30 o'clock. The ceremony will be very simple with no address; and only a few invited persons will be admitted...