Word: delphic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland went rapidly on from this point to the time when Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and less well known members of the celebrated literary group, inhabited Concord and wrote their books there. Emerson was spoken of both as the Delphic man, through whom the gods spoke to men; as the unpractical person intensely interested in practical affairs, and delighting in "people who can do things," and as the good neighbor, caring for his friends and fellow citizens, and standing up - in the words of an old woman of the village - "just as if he thought other people were as good...
...subject, and at that time there seemed no doubt, judging from the feeling of the college at large, that Harvard would bear her share in the efforts to unearth the site of the famous temple, the shrine at which the ancient world worshiped. The central interest of the Delphic temple has been so closely connected with the growth and cultivation of the ancient languages, it was expected that from all the colleges of the land contributions and aid would come from the departments devoted to classical study and research. It belonged to Harvard as the foremost college in the country...