to set (that is, to hone) a razor

Invent is undoubtedly the wrong word, but the push from government was crucial in getting the Internet out of its academic ghetto.

[…] she went on, making turns and twists, flourishing her skirts, kicking higher and higher, and finally, among a volley of shouts, fell on her hands and turned head over heels in a magnificent catherine-wheel; then scrambling to her feet again, she tumbled into the arms of a young man standing in the front of the ring.

Students, coinquirers in class, are cogovernors in the Assembly of Shimer College […].