Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many decades the University has benefited from the unfailing and stimulating interest of Major Higginson. His gifts have been incessant, without price--all of them unassuming. The two of which undergraduates are most conscious are monumental: Soldiers Field and the Union. Both of these were given in memory of friends and comrades who gave their lives for our country, and endowed for the purpose of moulding young men in the frame of these same worthy heroes...
...task is great, and well worth the efforts of out idealists, for the evils which surround us as many, and we are yet conscious of but few of them...
...that joy is in the air, that celebration is at the same high pitch as one any pre-war Class Day, and that both will reign triumphant until the last observation-train pulls out of New London Friday night, to the tune of "This is Harvard's Day." Fully conscious of the spirit of the occasion, we rise to drink a toast to the graduates, and to wish them all the happiest of possible reunions...
...mistaken the character of the course, and that the elective is not one from which he can derive the advantage which he expected. To be sure, in most instances, probably in the majority, we are fortunate enough to make a good selection; but almost all of us are conscious that if we had known more of the nature of at least one of our electives, we should not have chosen...
...customs will long survive. The Transcript cannot have many years to live on its present lines; and I am doubtful if its death will not--if thus prematurely assisted--detract from the gaiety of nations. Only Punch has an equal humour, and Punch, after all, attains its effects by conscious and perspiring effort...