Chapter 5 Section five

He smashed through the thick bay window and flew out.A piece of broken glass resembling a scythe flew out in a graceful dancing posture, slashed across the black scarf, and cut his trachea cleanly, and his body went limp, head first and then heel fell out of the window.He fell rapidly in the air together with the flying glass shards, and fell heavily in the courtyard downstairs. There was a moment of silence.Lei rushed to the window and looked down. The hard and thick soles of the shoes made glass shards flying like snowflakes.The unidentified person spread his limbs and fell on the thick fallen leaves. His body was cut by the edges and corners of glass shards.

A kaleidoscope: yellow leaves, black scarves, bright red blood.A ragged urchin was there pointing, yelling, and dancing around the corpse.Lei rushed downstairs, still muttering those vague words in his mind. He didn't know why that person was chosen to listen to his last words: Voich'intrate. Voich'intrate. (You walk in. You go came in.) Lowell hurried through the iron gate of the Harvard compound, feeling like he was a hero looking for the Holy Grail.In his mind, the more the Harvard compound became a stronghold of hostility, the stronger the chivalry in him became.In the past few weeks, the school committee tried every means to persuade Professor Lowell to adopt the reform proposal. If he did, the troubles facing his college would disappear, but in this way, it was tantamount to approving the school committee. Has the final approval right for all courses offered by Lowell.Lowell rejected their proposal without hesitation, which meant that they had to go through the lengthy deliberation process of the Harvard Oversight Committee before being approved, which is impossible.

When Professor Tickner left, Longfellow succeeded him, founded the Dante Seminar, and hired the brilliant Italian exile Pietro Bacchi to teach Italian.It was consistently the least popular of his courses due to the lack of student interest in Dante's seminar and Italian.Still, he was very happy, after all, there were a few enthusiastic students who persisted through the course, and one of them was Lowell. Now, after a decade of battling the school, Lowell faces a big event: Americans have discovered Dante.He has been waiting for this for a long time, and now the time is ripe.However, Harvard unexpectedly adopted an attitude of resolute resistance, and there was also an obstacle within the Dante Club: Holmes' wait-and-see attitude.

At a recent Saturday Club dinner at the Parker Hotel, businessman Phoenix Janison, newly among the richest in Boston, sat next to Lowell.Lowell was in a terrible mood. "Harvard is harassing you again?" Jenison said.Lowell was stunned. "Don't be so scared, good friend." Janison smiled, revealing two deep dimples. "I happened to meet some members of the school board a few days ago, and made a point of saying hello to them on this matter. You know, there's nothing going on in Boston and Cambridge that I don't know about." "Dear Janison, it's between the two of us that they're trying to get rid of my Dante class," Lowell interrupted. How much they resist Dante." Janison showed great concern about this matter.

Lowell looked puzzled. "Sometimes I don't think I'm made to be a professor, Janison. Nobody's perfect. I'm too sensitive and not conceited enough - outwardly conceited, I should say. I'm worn out by it." ’” He paused. “After all these years of being a professor, why can’t I treat the world with a sense of insensitivity? What does a man like you, a king of industry, think of such a despicable life?” "Your words are a little childish, dear Lowell!" Janison seemed to be tired of this topic, but after thinking for a while, he became interested again, "You have a heavy responsibility to the world and to yourself, and you can't just be a Spectator! I don't want to hear your hesitating words! I don't want to know how Dante saved my soul. But, good friend, a genius like you has a sacred mission, and that is to fight for all exiles."

Lowell grunted, too low to be heard, but there was no doubt he didn't want to draw attention to himself. Now, on the way to teach, Lowell loses interest and yawns at the thought of a classroom full of students who still think they can learn everything through study. A person leaning lazily on an elm tree, wearing a bright yellow plaid vest, described as thin, or rather weak, but very tall, even leaning on a tree is taller than Lowell.This person is not young, he must not be a student, and his clothes are ragged, he must not be a member of the academy.He watched Lowell with that insatiable expression common to lovers of literature.

As Lowell passed him, his yellow plaid vest leaned against the trunk of a tree, and pressed the brim of his bowler hat on his head.The poet only felt that his face was hot, so he nodded slightly in a panic, and hurried across the campus to the classroom, rushing to fulfill his duties for the day, and had no time to think about the unusualness of the man's gaze on him. Artemis Prescott Healy, born 1804, died 1865.He is buried in the family plot on the main hillside of Mount Auburn Cemetery, which the family had bought many years ago. Many literati still complain about the cowardly decisions Healy made before the Civil War.But everyone agreed that only the most extreme radicals of the past would insult the state court justice by refusing to attend his funeral.

Holmes was hardly the confidant of the dead man, as few, even among the sages of Boston, could say.Justice Healy had served on the Harvard Oversight Board, so Dr. Holmes had official contact with Harvard administrator Healy, not with Justice Healy. Dr. Holmes's longest contact with this judge was in the courthouse. That contact shocked him so much that he wanted to hide completely in the ivory tower of poetry.The Webster case, like all death penalty cases, was heard by a three-judge bench chaired by the Chief Justice, and Holmes was required to testify as John Webster's character witness.It was at a critical moment in that trial many years ago that Holmes delivered a lengthy and dreary testimony that forced Healey to back down from his point of view.