Word: turned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discourtesy of several men in taking bathrooms out of turn at the gymnasium, should meet with the severest reproof...
...increasing eagerness with which any room in a college building is sought for. It is not an uncommon thing for a man to keep a room during his entire course, and for him then to hand it down to a friend as a precious legacy. The friend. In turn, leaves it to his friend, who also bequeaths it to a third. Under these circumstances, the freshman has very little latitude in making his choice, he must take what his elders leave him, or go without. Let us hope, therefore, that some other millionaire graduate will remedy this sad state...
...year. In a few weeks we shall all be clamoring for the return of these selfsame blue books from our instructors, -the self-same books, it is true, but also, how changed. It therefore seems but simple justice that we should heed the lesser clamor of our instructors and turn over to their keeping for a few days the books in which "what we do not know" will soon be written...
...body is again swung forward, continuing, as it were, the movement of the arms. In fact, at no instant does motion cease. When the body is upright and about to reverse, the arms take up the motion, and as soon as they are at rest, the body, in turn continues it. These movements should follow one another with such exactness that no break or halt should occur at any moment. A gentle, well controlled, continuos movement will also be the most graceful, and most efficient...
...gave an interesting sketch, how the tradition about Plymouth Rock was handed down. The tradition, it seems, first found its way into print in 1774 through the Old Colony Society of Plymouth. The society got the story from a centenarian who was then in the neighborhood. This man, in turn, got it from an intimate of his, a centenarian of the proceeding generation, and he being born in 1631, got it direct from the Fathers themselves...