Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hoped that this discussion will have some tendency to awaken student interest in the college publications. It is an undeniable fact that these papers do not have the influence they should here at Harvard. It seems to us that this is entirely due to the spirit of hostile criticism and lack of cordial support which prevails. The "most direct and lasting influence of college papers" is, of course, on their editors and through their untiring efforts our publications are, and have long been, the standards for the papers of other colleges. If this eminence is to be maintained the papers...
...credit of Ninety-Nine which has shown unusual strength in athletics, debating and all its class organizations, and the most class spirit and enthusiasm of any class which has been in college for a number of years, that it is endeavoring to introduce a practice which is intended to awaken greater interest among undergraduates in their class organizations and a more demonstrative loyalty to the College...
...mystics through Emerson's influence came to be called transcendentalists. Among their number are classed men of all ages and all beliefs; Emerson, Jones Very, Thomas a Kempis. The mystic is never the worker, the philanthrophist, the thinker. For active life man must leave mysticism behind him. But to awaken ennobling emotions, to quicken deep and true feelings, one should turn often to the literature of mysticism...
...present organization in America was started in 1891, under the direction of Bishop Huntington, Bishop Potter, and other prominent churchmen. Its purpose is to awaken the minds of all Christians, beginning with the members of the Episcopal Church, to the social problems of the present day and to the fact that their solution is to be found in the earnest study of present conditions viewed in the light of Christ's teaching. In the problems which confront the student the members of the Union are bound to no principles but those of the Christian law. They are exhorted to study...
...year has already seen a remarkable change in the manner in which the Yale Union is regarded and it cannot but be looked upon as a most encouraging sign. For many years the man who tried to get good from the Union, or to improve it, or to awaken an interest in debating, was considered to waste his energies, but something has produced at least the beginnings of a change for the better. The Union began its good work when it secured new and more commodious quarters, and to a large degree, this was the cause of the growth...