Word: prophetically
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...print collections have been considerably augmented. To the Gray Collection have been added, by purchase with the income of the Gray Fund, Calvary, a woodcut by Durer; Prophet Jeremiah, a copper-plate engraving of the Baldini-Botticelli series; and a reproduction of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499. To the Museum Collection: Rivers of England, 18 prints (engraved in mezzotint after designs by J. M. W. Turner), by J. Bromley, T. Lupton, G. H. Phillips, S. W. Reynolds, W. Say, and C. Turner, a gift from Miss Elizabeth G. Norton; a portfolio of 40 prints, engraved in mezzotint and stipple, facsimiles...
...After the luncheon, given by the Corporation, in the Living Room of the Union, the exercises began. Professor Munsterberg presided, and addresses were made by President Eliot and by Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, son of the philosopher. President Eliot paid a tribute to Emerson as a poet and a prophet, an American in the broadest sense, in whose writings we find ideals of government as well as of learning. His name is, therefore, appropriate to this University, and to this department of the University...
...noisy time, said Dr. Van Dyke, for Egypt and Assyria were striving for supremacy and Israel was tossed between the opposing factions. There was also religious unrest, and men were tossed back and forth like shuttle cocks between superstition and atheism. In the midst of this confusion, the prophet, Isaiah, tells the people not to worry about political and social troubles, but to have faith and confidence in God. This faith lifts men up from the tumult and confusion of the world about them...
Coach Reid said he was not an optimist nor a prophet, and that his view of the present football situation was the real one. Within the past week, he said, I have seen some of the best men on the squad laid up with injuries which will keep them from playing several weeks, and the result is that there is not enough line material to give the backs proper trying out. Although the material is not first class, the spirit is excellent, and it is the spirit which does things. The University must show this same spirit toward...
...Mohammedan philosophy, with its simple doctrine--"that there is no God but God, and Allah is his prophet"--is noble and deep. But it was this too great simplicity of religion which was responsible for the decadence of Mohammedanism. The Christian religion entertained a great hope for the development and benefit of the race, while the Allah of the Arabs was a stationary God. To the expansive quality of Christianity was due its widespread growth...