St Margarets Academy - Dayseye Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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S T. M A K c; A R KT’S A C A I) K M V Minneapolis, Minn. Dante Jllighten 1321-1921 Friday, May 27, 1921 Program 1. The Age of Dante Dorothea McCarthy Florence and Ravenna . I .sobhi. Spencer II. Sonnets—“Inferno”—Longfellow . Pearl Adams A Dante Tapestry . Mary Tecktonius Brunetto I.atini . . Irene Slater III. Sonnets—“Purgatorio —l mgfellow . . Elizabeth Duvall Our I.ady in Purgatory .... . Mary Helen Kennedy The Lord’s Prayer—Dante .... . Mary Virginia Sprecker A Profession of Faith—Dante . Dorothy Hinds Virgil’s Last Words—Dante .... . Gertrude Murphy IV. Sonnets—“Paradiso Longfellow Clara Aubart Beatrice . Beatrice Malboeuf Beata Beatrix—IVaddington . Beatrice Plouf Beatrice—Dante . Mary Margaret Regan V. Lines to Dante—Tennyson Elizabeth Satteri.ee To Dante—Longfellow . May Hines Tributes to Dante—Selected Marguerite Lapif.rre IVhy Study Dilute? St i d k n rs' A n s w k r s Dante is a part of general culture. 1921 is the six hundredth anniversary of Dante’s death. For the poet’s Catholic viewpoint. For his pictures of mediaeval times The poem is a piece of world literature. The Divine Comedy influences toward good. Its originality attracts me. It creates respect for the great Italian poet Its relation to the Enid makes it interesting to me. It is one of the world's great epics. It gives us a vivid picture of the spiritual world. It makes one realize how terrible Hell is. It inspires meditation on eternal truths. It makes us desire Heaven

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S T. M A K (; A R K T S A C A I) K M V Minneapolis, Minn. On a ‘Port wit of‘Dante Sketched by Giotto’s master hand, Singer of the Song divine, Your brow is bound by laurel band. In your portrait’s every line The history of your soul I trace: Those eyes have seen the mystic sign Of God’s all-saving grace. You heard and felt the awful woe Of sins whose guilt no fires efface. In the Easter morning glow You scaled the mountain height, And paused where Lethe’s waters flow To wash away all memory of sin. And in the light Of her bright eyes, your Lady fair, Through many mansions wondrous bright You wandered on, and Heaven’s holy air Was yours to breathe. At last you knelt At Mary’s feet and said St. Bernard’s prayer. Within your very soul you felt Her love and Christ’s. Then back to earth You came, men’s hearts to melt With song of Paradisal birth. O Singer of the Sony divine, With laurel leaves this verse I twine. ‘Beatrice Ax Impression WHILE the charming personality of Beatrice dominates the Divine Comedy from the first canto of the Inferno to the sublime last canto of the Par-adisoy it is only when we meet her in the Terrestrial Paradise that we become fully conscious of her rare beauty and grace. Beautiful beyond the power of words to describe at her first appearance, she increases in loveliness as she and Dante ascend from heaven to heaven, until finally she ceases to smile lest the splendor of the vision dim Dante’s eyes as the sun at noonday blinds our mortal sight. She has all charms blended so exquisitely that her name, Beatrice, the blessed one, is hers by right divine. When she leaves Dante and resumes her place in Paradise, she is so ravishinglv beautiful that words fail the poet, and he confesses his inability to describe such heavenly loveliness. To have journeyed with one so lovely through the heavens of the Paradise is a memory to be cherished. •»

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ll T ST. MARGARET'S A C A I) E M V :: Minneapolis. Minn. It incites to better, purer living. It is a storehouse of Catholic doctrine. It increases our repugnance for the seven deadly sins. The Divine Comedy is one of the world’s greatest classics. It is rich in beauty of thought and felicity of expression. We honor a great poet’s memory by studying his masterpiece, and the study honors us. The Book of‘Dante in THE CLASS OF ’21 The Farinata Story The Ulysses Story . In the City of Dis Dante’s Good Friday in 1300 Limbo as Dante Saw It Landscapes in the Injemo Music and Son in the Purgatorio Casella’s Song .... Prayer for the Dead. . The Valley of Princes Angel Mountain Guides The Keeper of the Mountain Sordcllo...................... Landscapes in the Purgatorio Statius, the Mantuan . Faster Day in Purgatory Foresc Donati .... Buonagiunta .... Dante’s Treatment of Light Our Blessed Lady in Paradise Dante’s Mythology The Beautiful Gate . The Garden of F.den . Nine Choirs .... Dante’s Similes . Dante’s Angels. Dante’s Saints Cecelia Devitt Margaret Cronin Carmen Dumas Kona Galvin Lillian Lavdkn Agnes Alberg Florence Moffitt Agnes Kennv Helen Quinn Margaret Shook Helen Van Df.mark Bernice Schaefer Florence Danaher Regina Dougherty Estelle McGill Mary Ahern Florence Halloran Loraine Vanderlick Veronica Fallon Lois Pease Mary Mari; a ret Regan Genevieve Frankman Julia Marie Wightman Dorothy Schumer M A RGU E RITE Ni ER E N HA US E N Beatrice Pi.ouf Marie Trudeau Helen Lahiff Dorothy Hurley Catherine Burke