Word: turned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact than has been usual heretofore, and college students themselves more often come to occupy important positions in the plots of most novelists. All this is indicative, we think, of the increasing influence and importance that college men, as college men, are assuming in ordinary society. This fact, in turn, is attributable to the growing maturity of college students and the freer entree into society that is consequently secured to them...
...chronic defeat met with everywhere. No objection whatever is offered to their reorganization in the fall, and the chances are that if the obnoxious element is kept out, and the right men obtain control, lacrosse will once more be set on its booming career, and may after all turn out a credit instead of a disgrace to Columbia...
...surprised that we speak in this way, for some have sought to turn over the leaves of this book in the style of the blase dilettante and brand it forever with such meaningless phrase as we have before mentioned. A careful student, however, of the work, and one who is willing to see its beauties as well as to underscore its faults, will recognize in the first poem, "Exeter," many passages that are excellent and far above the average of undergraduate effusions...
...super's part, without learning how; and his text-books have not taught him how. Whatever business or trade he may go into, he will find a crowd of youths, often the sons of wealthy men, learning as apprentices, from the very beginning working in a queue, waiting their turn for advancement. After the apprenticeship is over, the scholarship which he has acquired at college will serve a useful part and help him to success. Homer and Legendre will make him not only a better lawyer or preacher, but merchant and miner, simply because they made him a bigger...
...single shell race, two miles with a turn, will be started from the front of the Union Boat Club house promptly at 1.30 P. M. There are six entries...