Word: peter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...urge here that consciousness is necessary. No man can use power unless he is conscious that he has it. This is true. Individuality and personality are necessary but they are very different from that self-consciousness which leads a man to think primarily of his own virtues. Peter. Paul and John may have been self-conscious before Christ came, but when He came His mightier personality transformed them. They did not lose their own personalities; they simply forgot everything except the message of this greater Power...
Those present at the meeting were Peter Vredenburg, Princeton; J. S. Cook, Harvard; W. H. Wright, Jr, Yale; J. W. Hutchinson, College of the City of New York, and Thornton Earle, University of New York...
...fifth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles the people are described as placing the sick in the streets, so that the shadow of Peter might fall on them and heal them. The overflow from his goodness gave his mere presence the power of healing. An overflow of somewhat the same character comes from certain men or universities or towns, giving a ring to their names that puts them at once outside of the common pale. Their goodness runs out beyond themselves to everything connected with them. In the university, the whole body of students is prevaded by the spirit...
President, John B. Kouwenhoven, of Flatbush, N. Y.; secretary, William H. Prentice, of New York City; master of ceremonies, Peter Vredenburgh, of Freehold, N. J.; poet, Jesse L. Williams, of Princeton, Ill.; class orater, Joseph M. Shellabarger, of Topeka, Kansas; ivy orator, John G. Wilson, of Baltimore, Md; historian, John M Mayhew, of Beatrice, Nebraska; presentation orator, Charles W. Somerry, of Philadelphia, Pa.; prophet, Leon M. Conwell, of Philadelphia, Pa.; censor, Charles P. Spooner, of Hudson, Wis.; Washington's birthday orator, William W. Smith, of Hollidaysburg, Pa.; Washington's birthday debater, Leroy Gresham, of Baltimore, Md.; Nassau Herald committee...
...situation of Cambridge, at the junction of the three roads built by the Romans, Professor Cooke passed on to the University itself. While a few years ago Harvard celebrated her two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, in 1884 Professor Cooke received an invitation to the six hundredth anniversary of Peter's College, where the poet Gray lived for a time...