Word: dreamers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...three Gallilian gospels touch but lightly upon it. It was thought to be a period of failure. His turning the money-changers out of the temple in Jerusalem first opened the eyes of the people to the new reformer. And His subsequent work proved Him to be no inconsequential dreamer, but a practical leader of men." Dr. Hale preached about twenty minutes with considerable fervor, and his hearers were benefited by his earnest words. The music for the evening was up to the usual standard of excellence. The anthems were "I will sing of Thy Power," by Sullivan, and Novello...
...entertainment consisted of songs from Tennyson by Mr. L. B. Greenwood and Miss Conant, and a representation of Tennyson's "Dream of Fair Women," the parts being taken by Misses Teele, Root, Hoag, Gooding, Shinn, Clarke, Latham, Small and Thomas; Mr. Magee, '88, taking the part of the dreamer. After the entertainment refreshments were served, followed by the singing of college glees, and charades. - Boston Herald...
...essays Matthew Arnold writes: "Who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection? Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic! Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!" To-day such words are only partly true of Harvard, though less true of any other college in our land. Yet if we are to have that feeling of love and reverence for her, which the Englishman has for Oxford, she must become, in some sense, a "Queen...
...dreamer by the unquiet...