Word: awakenings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...expression: "Under the loving surveillance of his blissful guide": "Along the endless corridors of time"; "He (the setting sun) casts his loveliest and softest glances yet once more upon the tops of mountains, or into the mirror of the ocean, to make his departure more heavily, and to awaken more lively desire for his return...
...costume eminently that of scholars, and in perfect accord with academic exercise. This inactivity on the one hand and indifference on the other having resulted in the abandonment of the project last year, it now remains for the Senior class of this year to decide whether they will awaken to a lively sense of the proprieties of the case, and by adopting the cap and gown revive a custom as beautiful as it is old, or by following in the path which the folly of a class of comparatively recent date has marked out, will still continue the wearing...
...exceed the present unconcern about club races? The serious opinion among boating-men is that the present system has proved a failure, and that a return to the former custom of matching class-crews will keep up the attention of men who pulled in their Freshman crew, and will awaken in others an interest in boating. The class system has this advantage over the clubs; a man will take more trouble to sustain the good reputation of his class crew, - a crew with whom he has associated and trained, - than to row in a boat with men he has never...
Habitual discussion of political questions before entering active life would go far to prevent this, and would be admirable schooling for men who have a real sense of their duty as citizens. On the one hand, it would awaken their interest in such matters, and stimulate them to examine the aspect of affairs much more carefully than they now do; on the other, the exchange of widely differing ideas would tend to reduce their surprising theories to a comparatively practical form. And now, when clubs are being formed for almost every purpose, why can we not have...
...Senior, and the majestic Sophomore discourse learnedly on the origin of metalliferous deposits to an admiring group of members of the various departments of the University. A few years ago one of the papers had a capital article on Whist; and, however this attempt may succeed, perhaps it will awaken more interest in this queen game of cards...