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Harvard's chances which had looked dark at the beginning brightened up when Vincent and Mansfield won first and third respectively in the quarter and especially when Yale was shut out of the high hurdles and failed to get first in the sprints. California's representatives did good work, winning places in the high and low hurdles, in the quarter and in the hammer throw...
...Central Station, and only seven minutes from the terminal station of the elevated road at One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street. After 1 p. m., trains will be run every ten minutes. The contests will be so accelerated this year that the last event will be decided long before dark...
...votes of the Board of Overseers will take a great weight of anxiety from the minds of those who love football. The prospects seemed so dark after the last of the recent Faculty votes, that the delight in their brightening is very great. It is pleasant to notice that the Overseers have taken a view of the intercollegiate football question which is identical with that of the students. They differ from the Faculty, as the students have differed, merely in thinking that the impossibility of remedying the present evils connected with football, has not yet been proved. Prove...
...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 before this Angel weeping and praying that he be allowed to pass, since he repents of his sins...
...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...