Word: enlivening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fall class races will be rowed this afternoon at 4 o'clock, and, as this is a new departure on the part of the University Boat Club, it is hoped that the whole college will show its appreciation of the club's enterprise and enliven the race by its presence...
...classes of persons to whom it is applied? Does it not work more harm than good? So far as members of the church are concerned the effect of compulsion may be disregarded, although it is said that even among these it tends to deaden rather than to stimulate and enliven an interest in religion. But there is good ground for a belief that compulsion tends to repel students who are not Christians and to harden their hearts...
...professors of old; some of them are goody's chairs, rickety with many years of window-washing; some are quaintly covered with the initials of great men gone before, and all are on their last two or three legs. These chairs give rise to many amusing incidents which enliven the otherwise weary round of lecture-going. Now and then they give way all at once like the "famous one horse shay," sending the heels of the occupant high in the air and giving his cerebral system a violent shock. Some of them go to pieces, part by part, like...
...have it distinctly understood that, in writing the above, I have been prompted, not by any hostile feelings towards either the Lampoon or Literary Magazine, nor yet by any favoritism for the Advocate, but from a desire to see fair-play and honor in this contest that must inevitable enliven the coming year or two of college life...
...small number of entries was made up by the ample number of contestants at the two succeeding ones. The failure of more than one to enter for a general excellence prize was a pity, as in former years the interest taken in this prolonged contest has helped to enliven some of the events which have a tendency to drag. Another year we shall hope to see the general excellence men appear in greater numbers. The absence of any tumbling was also noticeable at the third meeting. But to offset any defects, there has been a greater excellence in many...