Word: impression
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...what the CRIMSON wants to impress on undergraduates for the rest of this week is, first, that Harvard has only a fighting chance, and not a shade more; second, that to hit that chance is going to require the most enthusiastic determined moral support at mass meetings or other demonstrations of that same spirit; and, third, that in the Stadium on Saturday there must be a real power behind the team to give it that drive necessary to defeat such an antagonist as Yale will surely prove...
Technology, therefore, ceased considering the Riverbank site; but the fact that Cambridge might have secured that institution, and thereby added directly to the taxable value of the land between the Riverbank and the Grand Junction Railroad, began to impress the intelligent business men of Cambridge. Nothing could be more desired than that the Cambridge side of the Back Bay Basin, on which millions of dollars have been spent, should be occupied by monumental buildings, worthy of the location and of the city. Here was the opportunity, when an institution of great reputation throughout the United States would erect such buildings...
...tutor's seminar is doubtless better than no preparatory review at all. Yet a review of any real value to a man is something that he can do best for himself. Just as the act of note-taking in the first instance seems to impress the subject matter of a lecture upon the memory, so the process of reviewing and boiling down notes makes the reviewer at home with the entire field before him. The result is directly proportionate to the effort. The man who leaves the compilation and preparatory work to the tutor deprives himself of the most essential...
There is at this season of the year a peculiar opportunity to investigate social service work without exposing one's self to its discomforts. Many men who have been conducting classes are desirous of seeing their charges passed on into good hands. Believing in the work, they wish to impress others with its advantages. They would be only too glad of the chance to show a Freshman what the work really consists of,--what it can do for the boys, and what it means to the leader...
...Hill was a great teacher and an able administrator, and as such he will not soon be forgotten. He has left an impress upon American education that can never be effaced...