Word: alerte
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...weight of responsibility for speeding up the cause of liberalism in American colleges therefore falls with peculiar soverity upon the undergraduates. Public opinion is sufficiently alert to condemn such obviously illiberal actions as that taken by the University of Tennessee; but the criticism of subservience and timidity among the student bodies must come from the undergraduates themselves. Certainly one effective means of causing such discussion and analysis is a constant exposure of the illiberal attitude into which, through want of mental energy and alertness collegiate bodies are likely to fall...
Describing President Eliot at his in augural Professor Emerton '71, writing in the "Harvard Graduates' Magazine," says, "His commanding figure, erect and alert, his noble voice, once heard never to be forgotten, the persuasive authority of his manner, free then as always from all elocutionary trickery, the forceful simplicity of his language, all combined to produce upon us the sense of a new era about to dawn...
Here is Barrie leaping the barriers of restraint. The play brims with mocking, alert humor, almost Gilbertian in the intent to set the world right by standing it on its head. It is filled with nimble characterization, satirizing everything boldly, from headwaiters to financial heirarchs. But it is a question whether the tired business man will quite enjoy being banged over the head so liberally...
scrappy spirit which characterized the Andover match. The players were not alert and lost a number of opportunities to strike at their opponent's goal. Last Saturday, however, the team demonstrated some real hockey and clearly overwhelmed the Andover...
...Lois Selfridge, mother of Gordon Selfridge, London merchant: "I was among the passengers that arrived in Manhattan on the Olympic. Said the newspapers: 'Mme. Selfridge is now in her 90th year, although few of those who conversed with her on the ship would believe it, so alert and active is she in every sense...