Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introductory courses in Philosophy have long been among the major problem children of the College. Forced upon all who dreaded the rigors of Mathematics, neither Philosophy A nor 1a has offered a satisfactory introduction to the field. The Department is apparently quite conscious of the problem, and its latest move is designed to experiment with a new solution and at the same time to open the field without restrictions to Freshmen...
...material benefits derived from probation which ought to be preserved, in one form or another. Border-line cases must be made aware of the imminence of their expulsion. Perhaps the most sensible change would be to keep a nominal probation which would cause the undergraduate to be fully conscious of his low standing, yet would in no way materially interfere with his activities. Compulsory attendance at all classes, certainly the most uselessly obnoxious feature of the present probation, could well be done away with, holding a closer check of the probated student's cuts, but abolishing the absolutism...
Cochran lit one cigaret after another while Layton, handling his cue with annoying deliberation, wiggling his pale eye brows with conscious archness, worked his score up to 7 before Cochran had made his first billiard. Twenty innings passed before Cochran could make two points in a row. Then he got a run of four but Layton was ahead, 29-to-9. When the crowd grew noisy, dawdling, red-faced Layton walked to his chair and waited for silence. When Cochran demanded new balls, Layton insisted on the old ones, compromised by keeping his cueball, letting the other two be replaced...
...Florine Stettheimer who had done the sets and costumes, for Frederick Ashton who had come from London to devise the action. The Saints were supposed to be Spaniards but Virgil Thomson had chosen Harlem Negroes because of their diction. White singers, he feared, would act foolish and self-conscious chanting such lines as "Let Lucy Lily Lily Lucy Lucy let Lucy Lucy Lily Lily Lily Lily Lily let Lily Lucy Lucy let Lily. Let Lucy Lily...
...States had joined, half the little good the League has done would have been frustrated. That the League has lived to this date is only due to the fact that our own national selfishness was not added to the din of European bickering. We can watch its demise comfortably, conscious that our efforts to defeat it by remaining outside were responsible for its living on to prove its own fallacy...