Word: impression
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...want would not be long withheld. Would it not be well therefore for the president of the Senior class to call a meeting where this question could be discussed and an organized movement in its behalf instituted? Such a step would do more than anything else could do to impress upon graduates our earnestness in this matter and to secure their aid. Surely the time for more definite action has come and I believe that such action could originate best in a students' mass meeting...
...develop is independent thinking. Let a man think about the thoughts of wiser men but let him think for himself. Such a man will be self-regulating-quiet but strong-minded-not to be blown about by vulgar breath. Though such a man be reticent, his character will impress the casual observer as strong, pure and honorable. Though he never speak a word of exhortation, he will have the influence that is quiet, solid, visible. Every man here has an influence and is responsible for it. During the last twenty years there has been a tendency to magnify the savage...
Comment on the disfiguring of the John Harvard statue is unneeded, except to impress upon those who are not students how universally the latter are disgusted with the affair. As might have been expected, every undergraduate who has been heard to express an opinion on the subject has condemned the action in the strongest terms as that of persons who have no regard whatever for the good name of the University, and simply took the baseball game as an excuse to commit this outrage. Certainly such uncalled for proceedings show any but the real spirit in which Harvard athletic celebrations...
Those men who have already purchased tickets may have them redeemed if they so desire it, but the committee wishes to impress upon all members of the class the necessity for changing the date and the benefit that will eventually result...
...that are facing the country. If this is so, it certainly can be expected of undergraduates to take the trouble to learn something about the matter while they are still in College. And how can this be done better than through a club, the object of which is to impress upon students the need of Civil Service Reform, and to extend their knowledge of the principles and methods by which this reform can be accomplished...