Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feel that the eyes of the Harvard management of athletics were on them, there would be an increase of vigor to a degree hitherto unknown. Nor should we stop with base ball. In the autumn let us send out foot ball teams to the various schools, and attempt to awaken there an interest in college sports which will induce men, otherwise uninterested, to enter with a will into steady athletic work. Many of our old boats which are making strenuous endeavors to rot away in idleness, if sent to the different schools, more widely than heretofore, would bring...
...made to engage the memory alone, and those who undertake the study tend. in consequence, to "become simple information-machines, stuffed with systems of facts that they have no chance to digest ; and they come to play mere parrot roles, learning their task-work without any stimulus to awaken their powers of observation or shape their judgment...
...pleasantest features of college life is the opportunity we have of meeting fellows from all parts of our country. Not only is it pleasant, but also it serves to awaken us to the realization that the universe is not centred around any one place, be it in New York, in Boston, in San Francisco, but it is one vast organization which will continue to exist, even of some of those parts which seem to us the most vital are lopped off. We enjoy some of the benefits of travel, even while anchored in one place. We meet fellows from...
...have engrossed so much of the attention of the players as seriously to interfere with the higher and real work for which colleges exist. One of the games, also, has sometimes brought the students taking part in it into such relations with professional players and their following as to awaken apprehensions of serious demoralization. Attempts have been made among the faculties of the colleges immediately concerned in these intercollegiate contests to unite on some uniform regulations that shall control them, but thus far without success. In some of these contests, particularly those of football and boat racing, the students...
...probability of Hawaii being at some future time annexed to the United States may awaken an interest concerning education in that little kingdom of the Pacific. The schools there are much better than might be expected in such a remote corner of civilization. In Honolulu, the chief city of the group, there are a number of flourishing schools, both public and private, and some of them fit students for American colleges, Williams and Amherst especially. The success of the Hawaiian schools is almost entirely due to the efforts of Americans, and it is a pleasure to recall the fact that...