Word: conscious
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...athletic contests have sometimes been called "war." Possibly they may partake of the nature of war, but we should not forget that after all it is a mimic war, and that the players themselves are perhaps more conscious of this difference than the spectators. Too much is the athlete regarded as a fighter in a great cause, whose efforts must be supported both on and off the field in every possible way. A cloud of witnesses around the grounds, holding his every action in full survey, seems to be regarded as a legitimate division of the army, which...
...very happy days. This is a good climax. As my classmate Hill said in the CRIMSON this morning, I have been a shy and reserved person,' and like a real New Englander, somewhat inexpressive, I fear. In the first twenty years of my service here I was generally conscious of speaking to men who, to say the least, did not agree with me. That was the case not only in the Faculties of the University, but also in the Board of Overseers and in such educational assemblies as I addressed. But for the last fifteen years the atmosphere has seemed...
...terms that delight them with their novelty and fitness. How much fresher and more individual would critical articles in the Monthly be if authors were forbidden to use such terms as these, selected from a single article in the current number: "Finely critical," "sensuous couplets," "instinctive felicity," "subtilely conscious," "meretricious!" What a relief if we should never again meet the parenthetic "then" near the beginning of a Harvard sentence...
...Classical Lectures. III. Conscious Literary Art in Homer. Assistant Professor W. F. Harris. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
Professor W. F. Harris will lecture tonight at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room on "Conscious Literary Art in Homer,"--this being the third of the series of four lectures arranged by the Department of Classics. The lecture tonight will deal with the evidences of the Homeric poems having been the culmination of a long period of artistic development, rather than the simple and spontaneous expressions of an artless age, which they are ordinarly presumed to have been from the fact that they are the earliest example of Greek literature that has come down to the present time...