Word: awe
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feel the need to counsel with some one whom experience makes competent to give advice. It is not likely that his Faculty adviser will be available for more than hasty conferences on the mysteries of the course pamphlet. In addition, the Freshman is apt to have a feeling of awe toward professors in general which militates against the necessary frankness of his part...
...learning which go into the making of any college "celebrity." A professor may become that figure by the possession of a unique personality or of a few striking idiosyncrasies only. Or he may radiate from his every glance and gesture a powerful and independent spirit, apt more to excite awe than to invite friendly or filial attachment. But whatever the qualities that go to the making of a college "celebrity" they are sure to be of the kind that compel affection. Such a man teaches not alone by word of mouth. He instructs as much by his example of manhood...
When the class of 1866 of Williams College returns to Williamstown, two weeks hence, for its fiftieth reunion, Faculty, and friends will look with admiring awe upon the surviving members of the team which won the first intercollegiate baseball game ever played. Modern Williams players will be instigated to emulate the example of these pioneers of the national pastime, the victors over Harvard by a score of 12 to 9 in the Lexington of the college game...
...rather than discourage, an appreciative audience. Though April showers sometimes drip in Cambridge until June, such a cause for return to the traditional location is at least improbable. Unless their spirits are dampened, the more exhilarating surroundings may inspire in the participants some degree of enjoyment as well as awe. Instead of remaining in the graduate's memory a blot upon the single truly romantic period of his life in college, this day may become a refreshing climax for the most sentimental Senior...
...them. Hence it happened that I then formed no personal association with my classmates, and always felt remote and as if I presented the picture of a forlorn little fellow who ought to have been at home. To this day I have never got over an awe of them that I have never had of anybody else. . . . I recollect no instruction which was not of the most perfunctory and indifferent sort, unless possibly it was that of Professor Cooke in chemistry and Professor Child in English. The only impression made on me by one professor was that of a pair...