Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following account of a German students' duel, a thing which is of frequent occurrence on the other side may interest those of our readers who are taking fencing lessons, though we trust it will not stir up any blood-thirsty desires in their American breasts...
...enthusiasm and stimulate the nobler aspirations of those who were young in the first half of this century. How many causes have wrought this change any one can tell who breathes the commercial air of America. But there are still among us men in whose power it lies to stir our sluggish blood, to broaden our ever-narrowing field of higher enjoyment and to lead us into the sanctuaries of our literature. Is it then asking too much if we request that Mr. James Russell Lowell, an emeritus professor of Harvard, make his influence felt among us? We are well...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: As the CRIMSON declares that it never hesitates to berate for negligence, its example cannot but stir the rest of us to go and do likewise. And certainly if there ever was a fiagrant case of negligence of the proprieties, nay the decencies of civilized society, such negligence occurred Friday evening at Dr. Waldstei's lecture. The lecture was announced to begin at 7.30, and at 7.30 the lecturer begun, but for full fifteen minutes his way was beset with difficulties. For with almost every sentence, the doors of Boylston melodiously (?) creaked, and from one to three...
Harvard is surely the last place where one would expect to find a premium set on laziness and indolence. We all know how the very atmosphere of Cambridge seems to stir the soul and to urge the mind to work and learn. Yet, here in these self-same "classic shades" some ninety years ago, when the eighteenth century was striding on toward its close, there arose a systematic apotheosis of laziness. It was probably in 1796 that the idea of forming the Navy Club was conceived by some wag of the college. The principle of its existence was that...
...students and strikers gathered on Harvard square; but the latter were in a decided minority. At nine o'clock a bell rang in the stables and a chocolate colored Bowdoin square car came swiftly out, escorted by eight mounted policemen and stopped in the square. There was a general stir on the part of the strikers but no aggressive action. The car was filled with students in a twinkling and went off amid the derision of the crowd. The track by long disuse had become too clogged, however, and the car, after moving a few feet, stopped, much...