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...intellectual and spiritual progress of mankind depends. This issue is whether we can rid ourselves of war. If we can, our civilization will survive. If we cannot, our civilization will survive. If we cannot, our civilization is inevitably doomed, and will take its place with the perished glories of Nineveh, of Luxor and of Rome...
...could not escape; and at last his conscience, as we should say today, forced him to do his duty. At the second call he went to Nineveb. What was his mission there? Obviously to call the people to repentance. Never, as you may observe, was he informed that Nineveh would be destroyed, or even directed to threaten the people with overthrow. But it was, of course, understood that calamity would befall them if they did not repent--yet clearly only if they did not do so. The object was repentance, not destruction. The threat of the consequences of their...
...went to Nineveh and foretold the destruction of the city. His preaching was so powerful that to his astonishment the whole people immediately repented in sackcloth and ashes. The object of his mission was accomplished with miraculous speed; the destruction, which was to follow a persistence in sin, was avoided and did not take place; but having fore told evil, he was disappointed that it did not come. He was angry with himself and with God, and retired to brood in solitude over the failure of his prophecy. The moral, then, is that of the man who becomes so intent...
...Reidenbach '15 D.S., of Nineveh, Ind., led last year's Divinity School team, which won the interdepartmental championship.J. Bovingdon '15. H. Epstein '16. E. R. Adams '14. P. L. Sayre '16. AFFIRMATIVE TEAM DEBATING AT NEW HAVEN...
...gets its being from a figure obviously more suited to Swinburne--one of mingled sea and wind. "Sea-Poems," by J. H. Wheelock, are scarcely more successful, owing to the writer's tendency to be, fussy with his imagery, and to gasp whenever the mood requires powerful inarticulacy. "Nineveh," by J. S. Miller, Jr., has an ingenious conceit, well worked...