Word: stirred
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Leisure," the author says, "means a time for quiet reading, thinking and talking." Emphatically it does not mean a time of stagnation. Neither is it time taken away from study. A boy entering college is at a very impressionable, formative period. We, the teaching force, should find means to stir him intellectually, to rouse his ambition to do, and should also give him time to think, for all the new ideas to expand and develop. We should advise him, because he is still immature and likely to misjudge his powers and drain his strength...
...Peiper 3L., coach of the Freshman baseball team, will probably speak. Speeches will also be made, to stir up interest in the crew, by G. Clark 3L., coach of the Freshman crew, and by F. H. Burr, F. Forchheimer, and R. M. Faulkner, in behalf of the baseball team...
...with recent stripes it howls for the punishment of others. It doubts that the terms of the agreement with the Med. Fac. will be lived up to by its members; suggests that the Harvard authorities seem to regard Harvard students as a privileged aristocracy, and artfully bends itself to stir up bad blood inside and outside of the University...
...exceedingly poor; but "Nocturne," has genuine lyrical beauty, and "Demeter," by A. D. Ficke, is musical and delicately fanciful, though it lacks the strong and sure command of suggestive striking similes, which are the marks of poetic imagination as distinguished from that poetic fancy which pleases, but does not stir, and lightly fascinates but does not compellingly more...
...appears and, being informed by Captain Kahn of the guard, that the people are rising to demand the ear, the calls on Roger for assistance. Roger, however, is secretly presuaded by Sthu to join him in making an ear and gaining the throne. Cass, meanwhile, much worried by the stir the theft has caused, gladly makes use of an opportunity unexpectedly presented to give his half of the precious object to Princess Gara, daughter of the rajah...