Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time when destructive criticism of the University was widely commented upon, the CRIMSON desired to awaken an opposite current of discussion...
...reflection of the general attitude of the American people? If the undergraduate prefers billiards to books, and bridge to essays, it is hardly fair to load upon the universities blame which falls more justly upon the homes and schools. Some visitors have marvelled at the colleges' ability to awaken any spirit of scholarship in the stolid and uninterested material dumped upon them yearly. The patient camels scarcely deserve this last straw, an accusation of fomenting the very conditions which they are struggling earnestly, albelt impotently, to reverse...
...college training, they rose to heights the average college graduate never ascends. The simple truth is that college cannot give a man genius, seriousness of mind and determination of purpose. A man must bring these to his task. Perhaps the greatest service a college can do is to awaken the man whose attitude is: "Here I am Educate...
your universities. Witness the amount of space which your American statesmen, your political parties, and your economic conditions receive in our daily newspapers. You Americans are the ones who must awaken to this new status of world affairs, you must accord us some understanding, some sympathy and goodwill...
...your Aleutian Islands to the first of our Japanese islands. On a clear day you can look across from your Philippines and see the snow-capped peaks of our Formosa. In the second place our trade relations are becoming greater and greater. Japan will be the force which will awaken the Orient to a new era of economic prosperity. China is out of the picture for at least 50 years to come. It will be we who will touch the latent energy of China...