Word: turn
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...electric light system, the city may take over the management itself or intrust it again to a corporation. In England the subject of municipal ownership is not really the point for dispute, but the question of the employment of municipal labor is the pivot on which the controversy must turn...
Three articles in the April number of The Harvard Illustrated Magazine, Mr. Clapp's, Mr. McKenna's, and Mr. Groton's, are likely to secure the attention not only of Harvard graduates and undergraduates but of other readers. Lovers of "the national game" will doubtless turn first to Mr. McKenna's "Baseball Outlook for 1907", a compact and concise statement of the conditions at Yale and Princeton, and a sanguine analysis of those at Harvard. If Mr. McKenna is right,--and that he is, is devoutly to be wished,--Harvard men may conclude their reading with a sigh of satisfaction...
Team A scored first in the fourth inning. McCall, the first man up, went out on a pop fly to Davis, but Dexter followed with a scratch hit over second. Simons advanced him with a fast grounder past short but he was caught off second after making the turn. Simons then stole second and scored on Paine's overthrow of Pound's easy grounder. Dana went out, Davis to Waters...
Work has been begun on 17 new tennis courts at the north end of Soldiers Field. As yet they have only been marked out and the turn removed, but are ready to be filled as soon as the weather permits. Most of these are to be double courts...
...very poor business indeed for a college man to learn nothing but sport. There are exceptional cases which I do not need to consider; but disregarding these, I cannot with sufficient emphasis say that when you get through college you will do badly unless you turn your attention to the serious work of life with a devotion which will render it impossible for you to pay much heed to sport in the way in which it is perfectly proper for you to pay heed while in college. Play while you play and work while you work; and though play...