Word: waked
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...brotherhood, is masterfully drawn. The test of an imaginative work is the power it has of hypnotising its readers. Mr. Copeland felt that the first part of the book did exercise this influence upon him, but that just as soon as Trilby began to be hypnotised, he began to wake up, and from that time the book fell off in interest tremendously. The one person in the book, he said, who is not only a type but an individual, is Trilby herself...
...Magazine contains some very pointed remarks on the absence about the college of any memorial tablets to mark places of historic interest. As the writer says, "Certainly much interest and charm, and much stimulus to high thought and noble life, are lost to the students at Harvard who never wake to the fact that it is their privilege to pass three or four years amid scenes dignified by the recollections of great...
...Springfield, but unless the men become slightly acquainted with our cheer there is a good chance that any attempts made to introduce it on the day of the game will fall through. There will be lively football on Soldiers Field this afternoon and we trust the crowd will wake...
...Therefore today we, the elders, call upon you, our successors, to share with us in the emotions which the undimmed memories of the war wake in our hearts. We appeal to you with your quick sympathies to feel a thrill of just exultation in recalling the example of your young predecessors, when opportunity, the last best gift of fortune, was given to Harvard students to show the temper of their souls, and to express in action the best lesson they had learned from the lips of our Alma Mater,- the lesson of self-devotion to the common good...
...choir sang selections from Mendelssohn's Oratorio of St. Paul, "Sleepers Wake," "Now We Are Ambassadors," "How Lovely Are The Messengers...