Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow morning Dr. Davison will play the "Finale" from Franck. Sketch, Schumann "Sleepers Wake!" Karg-Elort
Surely what we need these days is dignity in talking about our common problems, and courage in combating the latent prejudices which wake to life at the lightest touch. We can appreciate the psychology of those men, who in smoldering resentment at what appeared to them to be continual discrimination talked wildly and loosely. But we must also know the reactions of those other men who do have visceral sensations at the presence of fellow students not entirely like themselves in background and behavior...
...recent speech, Nicholas Murray Butler referred to the misleading meaning of the terms "liberal" and "conservative". He declared that the former at present is almost synonymous with "destructive" and the latter "constructive", pointing to the devastating wake of "liberalism" in Russia as evidence to prove his case...
...Arthur Conan Doyle will undoubtedly attract wide interest in his series of lectures on spiritualism; and almost as surely, he will attract a large amount of criticism. For spiritualism, almost more than any other subject, has been exploited for long centuries; in Sir Arthur's wake there will almost certainly spring up a number of fraudulent mediums. This is apparently an evil which necessarily accompanies any kind of popular interest in an idea difficult to understand. In which last category all new ideas fall; the astrologers, phrenologists, palmists, and quack doctors who pursue their business profitably even in this 'enlightened...
Professor Wilson went on to tell of the events of the opening session on November 12, how this underlying film of distrust was swept aside in the wake of the great ovation accorded Secretary Hughes when the latter proposed concrete measures for the immediate scrapping of naval forces, how the assembled plenipotentiaries were engaged for three months in searching consideration of the Treaty, and how the final draft agreed in every essential with the original Hughes document...