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Word: awaken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Here's what's going to happen. Tomorrow at 6.30 A.M. a professional trumpeter (who by the way is also a dignified Senior) will make his rounds in the Yard in an endeavor to awaken the many souls who might forget what day it is. The start comes at 7.30 when the Seniors will march behind the First Corps Cadet Band to Thayer where one of the best photographers of the realm will take a picture while the taking is good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S. S. GRISWOLD IN THE OFFING | 5/21/1914 | See Source »

...easily reduced to the absurd by considering the comparative evil of copying three of four dates in an examination, and copying the major part of a thesis, the first of which actions is condemned, while the second is condoned. It is high time that public opinion should awaken to the artificiality of the distinction herein contained; let it brand with their right names those who cheat in outside written work, and place them where they belong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATE HONOR AGAIN. | 5/19/1914 | See Source »

...whether they will expect the undergraduate to acquire his knowledge of the military through the regular means provided by the government in its militia system, is not stated in the outlines of the scheme which have come over the Atlantic cable. If the plan goes into operation it may awaken similar military interest in the curricula of the larger American universities such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton, which now are without the services of Regular Army instructors. The only large Eastern university to avail itself of the services of an officer of the Army at present is Cornell, where...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY REGARDING MILITARY EFFICIENCY. | 3/8/1913 | See Source »

...life and the opportunities which Harvard offers. In this way, it will be possible to some extent to counteract the influence of inaccurate and distorted news of Harvard life that is often printing in the daily papers throughout the country. To rectify popular impressions of Harvard, and to awaken in men in far distant parts of the country interest in the opportunities offered here are the two main purposes of the plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD PUBLICATIONS AND NEW MEN. | 3/7/1913 | See Source »

...entirely passed away for urging respect for standards. The growing tyranny of external social standards, which the writer deplores, has been accompanied in great measure by indifference, on the part of both old and young, to traditional intellectual standards which society once imposed. It is much harder to awaken interest in certain sound ideals of culture and training than in the ideals of public service which the editorial writer so properly urges. But perhaps a new generation, in reacting against the respectability of the moment, will bring back something like the older respectability that has passed away...

Author: By F. N. Robinson., | Title: REVIEW OF MONTHLY | 11/2/1912 | See Source »

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