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Dante's philosophy of symmetry and harmony, as revealed in the "Divine Comedy" and his other works, was the subject of the address made by Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 yesterday afternoon in Sanders Theatre, where the University commemorated the six hundredth anniversary of the death of the great Italian. President Lowell presided at the celebration and the Glee Club gave two of the selections which they sang at Dante's tomb at Ravenna last summer...
Dante, according to Professor Grandgent, believed love to be a type of perfect equilibrium and God the embodiment of justice and harmony, and detected symmetry also in the events of history and in the facts of geography. He believed in an absolutely round earth, the center of the universe, in which the heavenly bodies moved in patterns of absolute symmetry. He believed likewise in a moral system of unerring justice, proceeding from God himself...
President Lowell will preside at the celebration, and Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 will give the address. It is expected that members of the Dante Society will attend, and the front row will be reserved for them. Members of the Circolo Italiano will act as the ushers...
Professor Grandgent, Professor of Romance Languages at the University, and one of the foremost authorities on the works of Dante, will give a discriminating discussion of Dante's philisophy. Earlier in the month he spoke at the National Dante Celebration in Washington, at which Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes presided. Professor Grandgent is president of the Dante Society of America...
...first meeting of the Modern Language Conference to be held this evening at 8 o'clock in Conant Common Room. Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 will speak on "Dante, Philosopher and Scholar." The meeting will be open to members of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...