Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plans proposed are intended merely as suggestions. It is not the wish of the graduates who are interested in the matter to ram a disagreeable prescription down the undergraduate throat, that is distinctly a non-Harvard policy. It is hoped, however, that they will awaken interest and support, and that undergraduates who may think of some better method of meeting the present visible difficulties, will not be diffident in coming forward with suggestions...
...course the wearing of the "H" is regulated by the Athletic Committee and no summary action could be of effect without a change of the rules which are now in force. The measure was, then, necessarily voluntary. Far from showing that the coaches have taken such harsh measures to awaken the team to a sense of responsibility, the whole episode offers strong proof that the men feel more keenly than any one else the mortification of Saturday's failure and are determined to set themselves right in the Pennsylvania game, their only opportunity. It is hardly necessary to add that...
...Lehmann spoke of the universities with which he had been most intimately acquainted-Oxford and Cambridge. In these two universities, interest in public speaing and debating is represented by the Union Debating Societies, open to all members of the two institutions. Having survived the prejudice which they at first awakened, they are today a most influential factor in English university life. Each society has a club-house, containing rooms for debating and reading, beside dining halls and rooms for social meetings. The weekly debates attract great numbers of men and awaken keen interest...
...WONDERFUL ADVANCE IN MANDOLIN MAKING.- The new 1897 Washburn Mandolin is creating a perfect furor among artists and amateurs. It is so far ahead of any mandolin ever heretofore constructed that it never fails to awaken the most enthusiastic enconiums, and expressions of surprise mingle with the praise, for the new Washburn mandolin fairly oversteps the line of expectation, and with its rich mellow tone marks out a field of its own. For the time it has been before the public its sales are phenomenal. A beautiful new catalogue (fully illustrated) telling more about this mandolin, and also giving full...
...this necessity; Harvard took the lead in organizing a Civil Service Reform Club; and her example was followed by all the leading universities. Harvard should continue to do her full share of the work as she has done in the past. The main object of the club is to awaken interest in the reform among the students and to teach them its methods, by means of public lectures, smoke talks, and reform publications; so that when they leave college they may take an intelligent and active interest in the work...