Word: lights
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...deep sleep. After trying for some time to find his way out of the wood, he came at length to the foot of a mountain, over which the sun was setting, spreading its red gold rays in a beautiful glow upon the summit. The poet, longing to reach the light and leave the gloomy forest depths behind, begins to ascend the mountain, when he meets a spotted leopard, which makes him retreat downward again. Three times he struggles to reach the summit, and three times he meets raging animals, and is forced back again into the darkening gloom. In utter...
...allegorical significance of this introduction to the Inferno is plain. Dante finds himself wandering helplessly in the dark, wretched forest of evil, and in order to reach the light attempts to climb the mountain of virtue, but is met and repulsed by passion and sensuality in the form of wild animals. He then meets reason in the person of Vergil, which shows him that the process of redemption is slow, and is not to be achieved by one great effort. He must rise through the purgatory of penitence. Dante tells us that there are many senses to his poem. Beside...
...Lloyd Garrison will give an address to the students of the University on "The Duty of Total Abstinence and the Popular Fallacies Concerning Light Drinks," next Thursday evening, April 11th, in Sever 11, under the auspices of the Harvard Total Abstinence League. Mr. Garrison's ability as a speaker is well known here, and this is a subject about which he is especially desirous of speaking to Harvard...
...sword at the empty throne after the play scene, his returning to stroke Ophelia's hair after his great scene with her, and his coming back to strew flowers upon Ophelia's grave, though not such bad touches in themselves, are characteristic of the whole part, which is light and melodramatic. The lines of the part are spoken with sensibility and taste, and the time of the verse is good. But on account of the limited range of his voice, Mr. Tree is unable to bring out the various music of Shakespeare's verse. His Hamlet was melodramatic, theatric...
...technical trouble with the boat seems to be that the weight is unevenly distributed, the waist being loaded down with 200-pounders and the ends with light-weights. This will lead to a more general shake-up during the Easter vacation than has yet been experienced. The boat moves rather evenly, but it seems impossible to get up a high rate of speed...