Word: turned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...whom more than to any other man we owe our life within this University. Three hundred and nine years ago John Harvard was born, the man whose gift was later to bring into being Harvard College. Today we do honor to him, and to this statue we turn in tender gratitude...
...Year by year to your feet come new men; year by year that band of men, who claim the honor of bearing your name, increases in number, for four short years we live among the places which the magic of tradition has turned to shrines. And to those same shrines through all the long after-years we shall turn for sustenance of life...
...which he is sometimes reduced into loosening his grasp on his idea. Instances of this are the eighth line of "The Little Cares" and the close of the "Night of Winds." In Mr. Cutler's Dirge for the Bucentor" and "Abdominal Patriotism," he again exhibits the quizzical satirical turn with which he has several times enlivened the pages of the Advocate. Perhaps neither of these can be ranked with his happiest efforts, though the former, apart from "the bosomed hay," is neatly done. In the second he saw a good opportunity, but such satire, to be effective, must be more...
High praise, indeed Another instance, showing his speed and ability to size up a play, was when he appeared like a shot and smeared a forward pass that Ames was about to receive with an open field for a touchdown. There is every reason to believe he will turn himself loose in his last game for the Blue, which, as we said above, will make the Casey vs. Legore for sensations complete. Boston Traveler...
...past it has been whispered that misfortune early in the game has left the Harvard stands weak and silent, and robbed the team of its power. This must not be the case on Saturday. We must show an indomitable spirit, the spirit that can turn a possible defeat into a victory. The man whose knocking knees are heard above his weak and faltering cheers has no place in the Harvard stands, and is unworthy of a Harvard victory. If the breaks of the game go against us, the team has the greater need of whole-hearted, enthusiastic support...