Word: turned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot ball has been practically abolished, a number of old foot ball men ought to turn their attention to Lacrosse. The sport is one which brings into play fully as many mental and physical qualities as foot-ball, and is not attened with so much roughness, nor marred by so frequent injuries...
...younger Mr. Charles Francis Adams not having found Greek useful to him either in soldiering, or in railroading, the Harvard faculty has decided not to require sub-freshmen hereafter to pass an examination in that language, tho' they may if they want to. It will be Latin's turn next, we suppose. Latin is a "fetich," too, and the decree has gone forth at Harvard that the "fetiches" must go. Perhaps some other things may go with them, but that is Harvard's lookout, not ours...
After the toasts came stories, each member present being called upon in turn to entertain the company. Solos were given by Messrs. Mason, Harrison, Perkins and Winslow, and a duet by Messrs. Hobbs and Frye. The officers of the dinner were, F. W. White, '85, president; F. T. Baldwin, '86, toastmaster; A. G. Mason, '86, chorister; M. C. Hobbs, '85, C. L. Harrison, '86, and H. G. Perkins, '87. committee...
...cart, while the frivolous crowd solemnly bare their heads; and at last it finds a resting place on a rugged couch behind the long, low window-and here we are on the other side of the window, gazing at it with a terrible feeling of sick fascination. Horrible! We turn away in unutterable disgust and with white lips seek the free air of Heaven once more...
...most trifling act, shall not lack its proportionate effect. True, all future events are determined, but only because their antecedents were determined first: and so far from the truth is it that we cannot change our destiny, that in fact we cannot but change it. If we work, we turn the current of our lives in one direction; if we do not work, we turn it in the other...