Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...their knowledge of English authors that in great measure made Voltaire and Lessing such capable critics as they both undoubtedly were. In precisely the same way, I should say that Keats and Shelley might have profited by a study of Pope, because it would have made them feel conscious that exaggeration is always weakness, and would have taught them, as nothing else could, that felicity of expression and compactness of phrase have as absolute a value in the technic, as imagination in the substance of poetry...
...only be if we read such books as make us think, and read them in such a way as helps them to do so, that is, by endeavoring to judge them, and thus to make them an exercise, rather than a relaxation of the mind. Desultory reading, except as conscious pastime, hebetates the brain and slackens the bow-string of Will. It communicates as little intelli...
...this figure, eighty-nine looks smaller still. Junior dinners have been successful in the past; why can we not make them successful now? As has been said time and time again, such a dinner gives the one chief opportunity in the whole college course for the class to become conscious of itself as a class, and for the different members to meet each other on a common level. Surely ninety-five will regret it, if the dinner is made only a halfsuccess...
...proper mangement is given to the movement, we see no reason why it should not reach a thoroughly firm basis. It meets a need of the times, and the ready cooperation which has been given by other universities evidences how general is this need. University men are becoming conscious of a certain lack of proportion in the attention given to their different pursuits and are seeking, in various ways, to obtain the needed balance...
...junior dinner is one of the most important of these influences. If properly conducted, no other occasion in the four years' course is so auspicious for a class to become conscious of itself as a class. It is a time when members, who have been occupied with their own interests and satisfied with their own friends, awake to the reality and significance of many other interests which up to that time they had merely felt, in a vague way, to be in existence. The dinner has a tendency to make men more open, hearty and sympathetic, and we strongly hope...