Word: prophetizer
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...sentimentalist who loves anything tinged with tradition and the unreasoning individual who sometimes values meaninglessness for its own sake may shed a silent tear over 30 and 32, no longer to be counted among the progeny of the History Department. But the true prophet of progress cannot but hail the advent of efficiency in a field where it has been sadly wanting...
Master Nicolaus, the sculptor of this announcement, who according to documentary evidence was called in 1467 from Strassburg to Vienna in order to execute. The Emperor's Tomb at St. Stephen's Cathedral, is probably identical with Nicolaus von Leyden, the sculptor of the two remarkable busts of a Prophet and a Sibyl in the former Chancellery at Strassburg, casts of which are in the Germanic Museum...
...general and Christianity in particular than that of the student. No small proportion of the faculty of Harvard lectures in Appleton Chapel, and undoubtedly there is a greater proportion of the faculty in attendance at the nine o'clock service than of the student body. Such a "pallid prophet" as Mr. Biederwolf mentions gets the least sympathetic audience among college minds...
...writing from his home town-"A prophet is not without honor, etc." Not so, Senator Willis as a student in the University here had the love and respect of his teachers and all who knew him best. His unusual intellectual capacity as a mere boy was recognized by the faculty and students as nothing short of remarkable. . . . Willis advanced by leaps and bounds in college; and while yet in knee pants, so to speak, became a teacher and professor of law. His neighbors sent him to the legislature of his own state, then later to the lower house of Congress...
...mutiny, disobedience of orders, causing undue disturbance. President Polk canceled the punishment, allowed Frémont to remain in the Army. But Frémont resigned, insisting on his complete innocence. Despite its verdict, the court-martial made Frémont the hero of the North and the prophet of expansion...