Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following men have been elected officers of the Dartmouth senior class: President, G. C. Richards, Salem; vice-president, G. H. Davis, Tilton; marshal, F. M. Weston, Manchester; assistant marshal, C. H. Richardson, Franconia; floor manager, H. C. Cummings, Concord; chorister, L. S. Cox, Manchester; prophet, Preston Shirley, Andover; chronicles, N. L. Foster, Concord; introductory address, G. A. Andrews, Providence; orator, F. B. Eaton, Hanover; odist, I. J. Cox, Philadelphia; poet, W. B. Plummer, Wolfboro; address to old pine, C. A. Jaquith, Thetford; address to old chapel, J. W. Edgerly, Pittsfield; executive committee, J. A. Cox, Conneaut, O.; B. W. Couch...
...orators of the senior class was close, the president being elected by but one majority. They are as follows: President, Charles Pool; vice-president, George Mower; treasurer, F. E. Tellon; secretary, R. B. Whittaker; historian, C. W. Parmelee; class-day historian, George Baier; presentor of mementoes, F. Manning; Prophet, C. A. Poulsen; ivy orator, Thomas Letson; address to undergraduates, George W. Hullman; address to president, H. Mareli; orator, P. Pierson; presentor of memorials, F. Tilton; class-day orator, W. Ranney; pipe orator, Gustav Witty; poet, C. Mallery; ivy planter, A Jennings, and ivy ode, E. J. Meeker...
...prophet was trying to arouse the people to higher ambitions and a nobler life. He had reasoned with them, had spurred them with a fear of God's judgments, had fired them with a glimpse of the future and of the promises to those that seek the Lord. And then, in the text, he struck their sense of honor and loyalty by an appeal to the past. Their history though checquered had been an honorable one; their father, Abraham, had in the spirit of faith migrated to the west and settled in a new country. From small beginnings they...
...this altar and to carry it with you through life. In a few days you will pass out the college gate and, with happy memories of Harvard in the background, your thoughts will be intent on the future. I might try to strike the several notes of the prophet: I could tell you from the lives of some of my own college mates of how God's judgments fall upon those that seek unrighteousness, - the sermon caught from a few unhappy and cursed lives would speak stronger words than any prophetic warnings. You would respond with eagerness to an appeal...
...living, inmost thought of a man, whose one object is the welfare of his fellowmen. He believed that truth must be spoken at all hazards, and this work was written at the risk of offending the most powerful persons in Florence. Whether as poet or philosopher or prophet, Dante's one strong purpose always remained unchanged. No servant of men ever gave himself to their service with more devotion, or ever served them with more integrity than he did. It is the marvel in Dante's poetry that, intentionally writing for a moral purpose, his work never lost in beauty...