Word: awed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...College Faculty Mr. Norton stood as our great humanist. Though easily confused with dilettanteism, and then justly laughed at, humanism when solidly grounded begets a kind of awe. This Mr. Norton experienced. He was a welcome member of a company of scholars who almost from chlidhood had been so charged with responsibility for single subjects that the relations of these to man's interests as a whole had been often overlooked. A representative of that wholeness Mr. Norton became. To the anxious debates of the Faculty, through which the modern Harvard has been gradually evolved, he brought the steadying influence...
...when the time for retiring came, escorted him to his room, pointed to the blazing fire with the reassuring remark that it was the perfectly safe and bade his guest good-night with the permission to keep his light burning until morning if he wished. Mr. Smith notes the awe with which the master of Mount Vernon impressed him, but Mr. Wister explains that this was the inevitable result of long preoccupation in official affairs. It is greatly to be desired that the author of "The Virginian" might give us a portrayal of the characters of Franklin and Lincoln...
...would, indeed, have required a fertile imagination to devise a program which would have enlisted the support of the undergraduates. We can picture the entire University marching sedately to listen to serious orations and to solemn reflections upon the life of John Harvard. The atmosphere of reverent awe would be everywhere in evidence, but not the undergraduates...
...public lectures given in the University" is interesting as snowing our quickness in detecting cheap sentiment, affectation, and our inability to divorce the man, as we see him superficially and are impressed, from the cause which we know even less. The statement that we listened to Mr. Aladyin "with awe and admiration" is true--and sad, because it shows that we are willing to applaud without understanding. We know that Russian autocracy is opposed to progress and freedom of thought, and that Mr. Aladyin is a reformer. That he is the kind of reformer whose methods make almost impossible...
...Purgatory of the "Divine Comedy," though less known, exhibits not less on- sight into life than the more awe-inspiring picture of Hell. There is, however, no bitterness, no helplessness in the disciplinary suffering of Purgatory, and in Dante's description of penance, we find no suggestion of the personal friendship of Christ