Word: awaken
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clock, instead of next Tuesday as previously announced. The production is under the auspices of the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Scandinavian societies of Boston, which are co-operating in this undertaking in order to spread a knowledge of Norse literature among the people of Boston and to awaken an intellectual intercourse between Americans and the people of the Scandinavian countries. All profits from this performance to be given to the American Red Cross for hospital work in the United States, to show the attitude of Scandinavians in America toward their adopted country in the present crisis. Tickets...
...fact that 1,000 students of the university at Syracuse, N. Y., are to earn their way this year in whole or in part, is calculated to awaken the envy of the country colleges, where the opportunities for self-help are limited by the environment. Educational institutions located in cities certainly have an advantage at this point. Men at the young Men's Christian Association College in this city, for earning money than the college boys in Amherst or Williamstown, despite the fact that special effort is made in both Williams and Amherst to get jobs for students who desire...
...Allinson's "Life" is a whimsical bit of verse; how much more crisply a similar idea has been treated, he can easily discover by reading Rupert Brooke's "Heaven." "When the Dead Awaken," by Mr. Willcox, is commonplace. Mr. Leffingwell attempts a feat of compression in a "A Song of Resurrection," and leaves his reader in a somewhat confused state of mind. Mr. Sanger collects his impressions of "Iron Ore Mines," and expresses his views about "America's Mission" in something that appears to be akin to free verse. Both his impressions and his views are worth while; but they...
...asking. Is it completely deleted, or has it merely crept into a safe hole until the winter blows over. If the latter, then it is high time--if one may mix the metaphor--for the prince, in the person of the new President of the Speakers' Club, to awaken the sleeping beauty with a kiss. A Californian in the Law School recently wrote to his Alumni Fortnightly that Harvard students take a keener interest in public affairs than do western students. Undoubtedly Harvard undergraduates have this interest; but it does not seem to find its way to organized expression...
President William T. Foster '01, of Reed College, pertinently criticizes American college education under the title "Vicarious Thinking" in the New York Nation. He charges the undergraduate with intellectual sloth and the educational system with failure to awaken in him enthusiasm for ideas. This is not an occasion in which the college man should jump into the breech and unqualifiedly defend himself and the system under which he works. It is doubtful if any undergraduate can be found who, if complacent in regard to his own spiritual and intellectual condition, is satisfied with that of his fellows. Many students...