Word: awakener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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German 5 is rather dull and monotonous in presentation. Daily throughout the year the student prepares about eight pages of his book and translates only a few words in class. The alert can determine exactly when they are to be called on, thus making it quite unnecessary to awaken for more than ten minutes of each class...
...officer to investigate the fire. He called the crew to stations. They responded in five minutes. He had the engines slowed down, then brought the ship about so that the wind was on his quarter. He ordered stewards to go through the corridors banging on pots and pans to awaken passengers, get them into the boats. When the fire passed beyond control, Captain Warms and his bridge force leaped down on the forecastle head, stayed there until taken off at noon...
...have other lofty New Testament hymns such as the 'Magnificat' and the 'Gloria in Excelsis' sung by the entire congregation after some training. . . . The aim is not entertainment but worship: to teach hymns in which men hear the voice of the Eternal; hymns that awaken the spirit of 'wonder, love and praise'; that . . . drive out weak, shoddy, self-centered songs that too often are mere piffle...
...Join Mr. A. C. B. in the query, "Why? ? ? ? Why the bell?" Is it to awaken certain employees? Isn't the college aware that we have such things as alarm-clocks; that they can be had for as little as sixty-nine cents? Aren't the Powers Above aware that this nuisance is deleterious to the health? In my own case, I get one less hour of sleep each night. Think, too, of the psychological effect. It's like having a cannon go off outside your window! It usually spoils my whole morning, and I am sure...
...ideas are not new, and his dialectic is not impeccable, but his thinking is of a type calculated to keep the cloistered uncelibates hereabouts "regular." "Lady Cops in Cap and Gown" is an article about the successors of the Red Indian in the West which should awaken some doubts concerning The Other Half. There is one contribution by a Harvard man, Mr. Gerge R. Leighton, which is a bit too painful for treatment; Mr. Leighton is advised to try the Alumni Bulletin the next time he feels symptoms--It is distinctly better to keep these things in the family...