Word: turn
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...them, at least - say they owe not very much to the College: most of their culture was attained after leaving here. In those good old times every man, as I understand it, was forced to study the same subjects. Now a man can, if he have any particular bent, turn his attention to one line of study. The advantage is inestimable...
...could well hold, and many couples took the opportunity to retreat to the theatre, which was opened for flirtations. Towards the end of the evening, the crowd was so much diminished, that dancing, instead of an infliction, became a pleasure, and one's toes, at the end of a turn, were in a fairly sound condition...
...mutual regard, and to renew also our recollection of the time when in these halls we were trained for the duties of active life. We welcome cordially the body of young men who this day have been added to our numbers, in the hopes that they, in their turn, will uphold the ancient name and fame of the University, will show that it has a right to exist in the men whom it produces from year to year. As arms are for those who can use them, so education is for those who can make it valuable; and we trust...
...Class of '78 are to have the Oxford caps. The innovation is opposed and the opposition pointed with the moral, "It is far easier to wear Oxford caps than to turn out Oxford scholars...
...Brown batting to second, Wheaton getting a base hit, and Morgan retiring on a good catch by Dow. Wright is evidently in a hurry, and goes out quickly at first. Dow then hits a hard one to the pitcher, who touches it with his hand just enough to turn it into the short-stop's hands. Sawyer then completes the symmetry of the score card by going out as the twenty-seventh...