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...many undergraduates and graduate students each week, Professor G. H. Palmer '64 spoke on the "Life and Works of Homer". Professor G. K. Rand '94, in the second talk of the series discussed "Virgil", speaking specifically on the Eclogues", the "Georgies", and the "Acneid". Last Wednesday Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 spoke on "Dante...
Delivering, before a large audience which followed his words with eager interest, the third talk in the series on "Four Great Poets", Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 brought out the fact that Dante merits an outstanding position among the world's literary creators because of his imagination, beyond that given to any other great poet, and because of his artistic skill, second to none and shown to best advantage in the exact balance of the three factors--conception, selection, and expression...
After advising those students who intended to carry further their consideration of the subject, to study Dante's life and times, to get the substance of his best works, and to do reading as much as possible in the original language, Professor Grandgent concluded, "From such study, derive the conception of a supreme artist, endowed with clearest vision, vivld appreciation of beauty wherever found, love of symmetry; a scholar of orderly mind and insatiable thirst for knowledge; a man of exceptional intensity of feeling; above all, a mighty champion and prophet of justice...
...mistake of calling Dante "that French Revolutionist who had his head cut off by Robespierre." One slightly more informed will remember vaguely that Dante went to Hell; the next will follow him beyond there to Purgatory and finally Paradise; while the scholar will know that Italian 10, under Professor Grandgent, is one of the most desirable literary courses in college...
...only a few are equipped to take Italian 10. To the rest, Professor Grandgent's lecture this afternoon will give at least a glimpse of the great medieval poet, and suggest the peculiarities of his mental makeup which one must understand to appreciate him. With an introduction such as professor Grandgent can give, the acquaintance can be broadened into a profitable knowledge...