Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students other courses will in time undoubtedly be added. It would not be necessary or appropriate to require fifteen hours, even if so many could be taken, for few indeed would care to devote themselves so exclusively to an ornamental branch of knowledge. The proposed step is calculated to awaken a lively interest in the study, and to give some recognition of the work by mention in the Catalogue...
...rowing at Harvard, it seems too bad to banish these hard-earned colors to places where they are in danger of being defaced, if not ruined. They might be placed in Memorial Hall, Massachusetts, or some other Hall where they would meet with good care, be preserved, and awaken recollections of those days when friendly contestants struggled honorably for the first position in the College regatta...
MUCH can be said against the custom of intercollegiate Freshman races, as well as for it. In the article in the last Advocate, the argument that these races were needed to awaken the boating interest of the class was dismissed with the assertion that the success of the new system was all that was needed for that purpose. The new boating system will undoubtedly be a great incitement to Freshmen, and more of them will row habitually than ever before. But this does not prove that from increased knowledge alone, such an interest in boating will be aroused...
While other young men are eager to acquire a sufficient knowledge of trade to allow them to assume a business air and talk volubly of the rise and fall of stocks, the average collegiate is gloriously indifferent to it. Such topics awaken no interest in his breast. It makes no difference to him what gold is quoted at, and he never troubles himself to ascertain. He is told of the panic, of the very dull times, etc., but to no purpose; a panic is something of which he has no clear conception, and of dull times his idea...
...baleful leer would awaken fear...