Word: impression
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...purpose of the various kinds of advice offered to Freshmen is to acquaint them with the various fields of activity open before them, and to impress upon them the obligation of taking part in some one or other of these. At the Faculty reception in the Union this evening, President Lowell will address the Freshman class. From him more than any other man can they receive a broad and rounded notion of the meaning and purpose of undergraduate life. The class should be present as a whole to hear...
...know of nothing so interesting as meeting the mind fresh as it comes into the College, and trying to impress it as well as you can with the habit of thought, trying to stimulate its imagination, trying to get it into the university way. And it is also illuminating, it shows you a good many things. One of the things that it has shown me is that few of the boys who come to us from schools can read books; they can read the printed page, of course, a sentence or a paragraph, but they cannot read a book...
...need of candidates for the 1913 track team has become so very urgent that we are taking this opportunity to impress upon the Freshman class the fact that only about three weeks remain before the dual meet with Yale...
...combination of the two, so often heard in pulpits and meetings, called speaking from notes; and the true, natural way which involves thorough preparation of the subject, without foreknowledge of the words in which it is to be delivered. Then the lecturer if he is clever gives the impression of talking casually but very well, and of having something on his mind which he wishes to impress upon his audience...