Word: turned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...threshold of knowledge, but who do not enter. The door lies open, but we have not the courage to advance and explore the unknown regions. The possibilities and chances of life are of two sorts. Those we strive after and desire to possess, and those to which we turn a deaf ear. The latter are continually knocking for admittance. They are love, truth, tenderness, purity, faith, fidelity, etc. Sometimes they gain admittance to a man's heart, but oftener are driven away by the all-absorbing cares and duties of every-day life. It is so even in religion. Religion...
...that boating is to all other studies as 14 is to 7. As for the Yale tutors, the chances are that those level-headed devotees of knowledge on learning that "Bob" Cook is to be given a dinner in fourteen courses will merely entertain the impression that when their turn comes they will be asked to a stand-up lunch or an early tea with ice cream and sponge cake passed around later in the evening. President Dwight, having had his dinner with the alumni, does come within the scope of the present discussion. We may remark, however, that...
...great economical questions. Amid the confused mass of economic literature of to-day, when superficial writers are so abundant, when a flood of pamphlets, often as obscene in language as they are mistaken in facts, threatens to involve the student in endless perplexity, it is a relief to turn to authors of established reputation in their departments. That the "Quarterly Journal of Economics" should prove so successful in its purpose must be a great satisfaction to its editors...
...endeavor to catch it in his mouth when it falls, a trick worthy of an organ grinder's monkey, but entirely out of place in a dining room. Now let these freshmen who have not been with us long enough to know that Harvard is no nursery, turn over a new leaf and expend some of their pocket money for a book on "table etiquette." It is high time that such childish actions were abolished, and that a realization of their position be forced upon them...
...Columbia College Dramatic Club is soon to produce two farces, one entitled the "Buzzards," and the other "My Turn Next," the proceeds of which are to be given to the university crew. - Yale News...