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...Nutter's poem, a modernized "Inferno," was the hit of the evening. Mr. Hobb's oration was also well received. The various toasts were interspersed with songs, solos being given by Messrs. Carroll, Baldwin, Chanler, W. W. Winslow, White, Webster and others, besides numerous choruses, in which the class joined with a will. The following toasts were...
Signor Monti gave us four very interesting lectures on "Dante and his Divine Comedy." At the Inferno lecture he recited a long passage to us in Italian, where Franecsca di Rimini meets the poets and tells her story...
...walking clothes-line and unabridged dictionary of profanity combined. Simple Simon was a young Solomon when he chose his mother's pail for his fish-pond. The rest of my visit was more pleasantly devoted to the hammock, the pretty daughter, and the sketch of a new Inferno in which old Izaak Walton is to figure conspicuously...
...almost vacant. I selected that, for I was not pleased with the appearance of the gentlemen at the others. It was very pleasant, - so quiet, - such a subdued light. "Bless me," said I, "this is not so dull a place after all." And I was soon deep in the "Inferno...
...with regret that we observe the falling off in the attendance at the evening readings given by our professors in the various departments of literature. Only a short time since, the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth cantos of the Inferno were read to an audience of five students and four outsiders; while a few weeks before a multitudinous concourse of three - including a library clerk - assembled to hear a reading from Faust. It may be that we are now having a surfeit of lectures and readings; but it certainly seems that those who fail to attend our evening...