Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that youth is not primarily interested in the science of religion, that it does not want to be pious. It does want to be brave, clean, honest, and useful. It does, behind a deep and shy reserve, revere itself, its Maker, and its brethren. Here is a youth's conscious idea of his religion; that as boyhood ends, character must begin; that as manhood is consummated, capacity to serve must be its essential witness...
...Mitigating Circumstance" concerns a freakish motor-boat which gives its owner two unhappy hours and affords the reader an excuse for a few smiles. Perhaps if the humor were not so self-conscious the reader might laugh outright occasionally...
...play is thus genuinely a revival, for it is given practically intact. So invigorating is the courageous, open-air climate that even the most arrant coward is shamed out of his cowardice into as energetic courage; the returning Captain Goodlack, who is much tempted to gainful villany, is too conscious of good impulses within and without to keep his evil purpose; and the only real villany about is the national villany of Spain...
With these points in view, the committee has proceeded with conscious deliberateness to make tentative rules for trial in the spring football practice of the various colleges. The rules, so far as they go, promise well to accomplish the desired results; but, of course, the committee has not yet really given any definite form to the revised game, as the actual phrasing of the rules has not been attempted, and the question of keeping the forward, pass, which is the crux of the whole situation, has not been settled at all. The rules which have been laid down...
...Liberty" in connection with Philosophy 4, this afternoon in Emerson J at 4.30 o'clock. In this lecture, M. Boutroux will discuss the question of whether novelty, in the development of things, could not, in an analogous way, be accounted for by an appeal to the properties of conscious life...