Word: awakened
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Orient is trying to awaken the rowing interest at Bowdoin...
...hard work of the muscles, many such men settle down to study and often make fair scholars. The system is conducive to the good order of the college, because it furnishes a healthy, interesting topic of conversation out of study hours. 5. The power of the athletic contests to awaken enthusiasm ought not to be held of small account. The tendency of academic life is toward dry intellectualism. However desirable such a tendency may be for those who are training to be investigators, there can be no question that it is lamentable for a young man to begin life without...
...remains to be proved whether they have any worthy successors among the lower classmen. We must therefore urge everyone who has any athletic ability, to endeavor to turn it to account, and to make sure of our being represented by a good team in May. All our athletes must awaken to the fact that the time for the winter meetings is rapidly approaching, and there is little enough time left for preparation...
...with men from so many states there is material at hand to draw representatives "to the manor born" to sit for their own commonwealth, and who could and doubtless would gladly make an intelligent study of their own states, so as to prove valuable members, and the discussions would awaken an interest in the management of our form of government, with a knowledge of details in parliamentary meetings and what is more important, lead to a broader view of the whole length and breadth of the different interests of a country so large...
...real truth is that the college has always been, and now permanently is, a gymnasium where the young have to learn the necessities of actual life in its comprehensive scope, and realize their capacities and limitations under conditions the best calculated to suppress undue conceit and awaken or abolish dullness...