Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pedagogical Club was organized in the last part of last year, the object being "to awaken interest in pedagogics among the members of the University, to further the study of education and teaching in the University, and to offer the members opportunity for the discussion of educational topics." Professor Hanus has appointed a committee, consisting of A. O. Norton, chairman, M. C. Leonard, G. I. Clapp, W. H. Smith, and F. R. Hodge, to re-organize the club...
Among the early Buddhists transmigration was accepted without criticism. They endeavored to awaken the unconverted to the perception of the impermanence of all things. The question as to whether this doctrine of impermanence applied to the self was scarcely considered by the Buddhists. They strove to discourage ontological speculation in favor of practical morality. They believed in "transmigration of character," until all self - regarding aim is extinguished, and the craving which produced new beings was rooted out, and there was no further rebirth. The Buddhist taught that the eradication of all evil desires and the purification of the soul...
...point out the need of philanthropic enterprise on the part of the students, and to show the present possibility of effectual work of that kind. Both the need and the fitness of Harvard students in part to supply this need are unquestionable. It is a cause worthy to awaken sympathy, and enlist cooperation...
...hardly needs to call attention, he said, to the importance of the subject of immortality. It has a touch of humanity about it that must awaken our sympathy. In this course the roots of belief in the soul will be investigated, not through modern psychology but through the early experience of the human race...
...title represents it to be, some college verse - and nothing more." He hopes "that it may find a corner in the domain of lighter verse, that it may be a congenial complement to the old brier root during some idle hour of undergraduate life, and that it may awaken in those who have left their Alma Mater, the sleeping memories of that happy, careless past, - memories which neither time nor adversity nor absence can efface...