Word: turned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...games, and probably caused defeat by a 4 to 2 score at the hands of Princeton in the first league game of the season. Four practice games preceded the contest with Princeton and each of the opposing teams, Prospect Union, Andover, Springfield and the Law School were defeated in turn. Few of these early games showed the team-play and accuracy in shooting which should have been in evidence even so early in the season. Coach Burgess had continually to battle with a tendency for individual playing which threatened to wreck the prospects for a more successful season than last...
...other characters are for the most part ludicrous in themselves, and the situations into which they are put are calculated to bring out their idiosyncrasies in the funniest manner. There is an alderman who "bosses" town and council and is in turn "bossed" by a Xantippian wife. There is a dapper young insurance agent who undertakes to get his friend out of trouble, and instead draws him into a mesh of complications. There is a group of aldermen typifying various stages of conservatism, churlishness and inebriation...
...unions at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Pennsylvania. At the same time the new institution will be unlike those that have gone before it, in being paid for by students themselves, instead of by benefactors. This difference will no doubt be regarded as a good example. So, in turn, the California structure may become a model for universities not yet founded. Christian Science Monitor...
...group of several men, just one of them can turn the tide from ordinary piffle, and keep the tone of the conversation high. By developing a discussion into something valuable, the best in student life is often expressed. From the ordinary student rocker in the top story of a rooming house may be expressed in college slang, truths which are as great as any which were exhaled from the Greek oracles. Students thus decide to their own satisfaction some of the fundamental questions which otherwise they might never have figured out. A wealth and variety of experiences, and a healthy...
...walls are lined with the classics of English literature in the most attractive editions. He will be furnished with books of immediate interest in the growing collection of writings on the war by Harvard men. On the whole the room will prove a great temptation to those who turn naturally to books during the lazy winter months...