Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of undergraduates is being held tonight to arrange for concentrated cheering and to stir up general enthusiasm among the students in order to encourage the team as much as possible. The Tigers are determined to defeat Yale...
...very existence of that utilitarian tendency. The mind may become as unbalanced through over-practicalism as through over-idealism, and boast as we may of the triumphs of science in its application to commerce and the arts of life, it is still only the achievements of the imagination that stir the deeper enthusiasm of mankind. Watt and Stephenson are entitled to our highest respect, but Plato holds his own, and we feel that something greater and rarer went to the making of Hamlet than to the invention of the steamengine, or the turning of it into a draught horse...
...success of the Junior Dinner held last night is highly gratifying. There was enough jollity to stir a warm sense of fellowship; enough seriousness to indicate that the fellowship was not assumed for the occasion but would long abide. For once, certainly, a class-feeling was revealed, sincere and strong...
...college, yet does not improve the opportunity offered him, it is surely his fault; and so it is with us; if God offers us eternal life and we choose an evil one, the blame rests upon us. God never violates a man's free will; he can only stir up his soul to action and if that action is not for virtue, he alone and not God is to blame...
...senior class photograph committee reports that there are still a great many men who have not yet sat for their pictures. Every day makes it harder to stir up delinquents and the time for doing satisfactory work is growing less and less. The committee has used all the devices in its power for getting men to attend to the matter and it has now nothing left but to hold up the facts of the case and urge the men who have not sat to do so at once...