Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Princeton, Harvard was the favorite; she no longer is. It has been said that only a touch of adversity is needed to bring out the dormant Harvard spirit. Let us prove the truth of this statement to the world...
...main purpose of the meeting will be to organize and put on a running basis not only the Council itself, but class activities in general, which have been dormant since last year. Class elections will be considered at this initial meeting, and dates for the election of the class officers including the elected members of the Council will probably be determined...
...Long have we waited for the day when the booming of guns should no longer be heard. Now we have hopes that the destructive forces of war shall never again be employed on this earth. The coming of peace means the awakening of every ambition which has been lying dormant in every breast...
With the coming of the spring season and warmer weather, military work, which at all the colleges has been more or less dormant during the winter, is beginning to become intensive again...
...ghastly are the words of cravens. We see men who have been striving after the futile things of life suddenly become magnificent in their vision. We see selfish men grown generous and careless men stirred to passion by the deep love of country. We see the awakening of a dormant people, and know how terrible are many of the ways of peace...