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Perhaps the most significant literary work done by a Harvard professor for a number of years is Professor Norton's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Hell, the first division of the poem, is as yet the only volume published, but the Purgatory and Paradise will probably be out before the winter is over...
...interesting to know and to remember while reading the "Hell," that Mr. Lowell to whom the translation is dedicated, read the proofs of the first volume and of the first cantos of the second, the Purgatory...
...sermon last night to a large crowd of interested hearers. His text was the words of Christ reiterated frequently in the gospels-"follow thou Me." The common idea of Christianity is that if offers to the world the alternative of a Heaven in which all is joy and a Hell in which all is pain; Heaven is to be gained by "believing in the Lord Jesus Christ," and Hell by disbelieving. Why do not all believe? Because this idea is a pagan idea grafted upon the pure stem of Christian faith. Christ does not offer anything so easy...
...athletics did not begin to have the prominence in American life that they have hell since. There were no great athletic clubs - as we look at them to-day - few if any cinder paths, no good stop watches, and no accredited timers. How are we to wonder, then, that all sorts of unreliable and preposterous records were accepted as good, on the word of half a dozen interested "sports?" Read, for instance, these gems of the collection mentioned above, which after all is a very incomplete...
...clearer than Emerson. He endeavors to emphasize, by means of more prolix English, that Emerson had us understand that in each man, and in himself alone, rests the influence that guides him; that each day is "the judgment day"; that in each one of us is Heaven and Hell, not in some distant and far off mysterious land. Such writings, as long as there is room for improvement in human nature, as long as crime and ignorance exist, cannot help doing good...