Word: awed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...different generations, and every one has felt a certain inherent right to carve his initials wherever he pleased, even though from motives of discretion he did it surreptitiously. Few indeed have been the books written on school life, in which the grey-beard did not point out to his awe stricken son the letters of his name, and with pride narrate how he put them there when a schoolboy himself. Few relics in the old schools and colleges are more highly prized than the names thus inscribed of those who in after years became famous...
...Thanksgiving game and the freshman game in the News of Monday seems to be a revival of the old-time Yale characteristics, sensationalism and unfairness. A year ago we called attention to remarkable effusion which the News reporter, inspired almost to dizziness by this sensationalism, had given to an awe-stricken public. Since then there has been no marked cropping out of this inspiration until now, when again we read of the "heavenly color" which appeared to the coaches. But this is not so noticeable; it is simply silly. What does exhibit the real Yale spirit in foot-ball...
...comes to work his own way in the world, if he has that uphill business in his future. And no one will deny that, as a rule, men who rise in the world do so by the uphill road. As for the professors, men so learned as to inspire awe and reverence for so much knowledge, they do not look as if they had occupied luxurious suites of rooms in their college days. One room, with bare floor, a chair, table, and pegs in the wall for clothes, is more likely to have been their lodgings. How much time...
...told, with awe, Ben lighted...
...taste - depraved probably - light sketches are as satisfactory pabulum as warmed-over witty stories; in general literature to us Hawthorne is as entertaining as Josh Billings." The self-complacency with which the News compares its sketches to the works of Hawthorne is something grand and awe-inspiring...