Word: gately
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...place the poets travel during two days, and here Dante meets his former friend Cassella, the musician, who sings them that famous song, which is, perhaps, the most exquisite, and deepest in meaning of any we find in the Divine Comedy. On the third day the poets pass the gate of Purgatory, and find before them three stairways, the first of polished marble; the second rougher and dark in color, and the third of flaming red. At the top of the third flight of steps stood the Angel of the Lord with a great sword in his hands. Dante falls...
...gloomy that Dante hesitated to go on further until Vergil tells him that he has been sent by Beatrice to lead Dante from error into the path of righteousness. Dante on learning this 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...
There will be improvement about the entrances this year. Many of the supports have been taken away from under the railway bridge so that access to the entrance will be much freer. And then, instead of one gate to serve as the entrance, there will this year be three. The arrangements for getting to the different sides and ends when once inside the grounds will be practically the same as last year...
...have become accustomed to finding their places on one side or the other. If a change were made it is felt that there would surely be some persons who would start in the wrong way and probably in the crowding and pushing not a few would pass the wrong gate, and cause no end of trouble to the ushers and gate-keepers...
...want our photogravure of the Harvard Gate shown to every man in the University. We should like to arrange with some one in '97 or '98 to do this...