Word: turned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...along the entire front of the building, is the main centre for the majority of the students. To reach the second floor from the front entrance hall, one goes up the central staircase to the level of the Memorial Hall, and then follows either of the two flights which turn backward and upward towards the front of the building. To the left is a short corridor from which rise the stairs to the third story and at the end of which is a special reading room now used for periodicals. The stack level opens from the back of this reading...
Timely also and much needed is the message contained in Mr. Lodge's "Modest Plea in Defense of the Humanities." While it is neither possible nor desirable to turn education back into the channels in which it flowed at the time of the Renaissance enthusiasm for the ancient world, it is undoubtedly true that the pendulum has swung too far towards the so-called "practical" subjects. Living implies more than efficiency and abundance of material goods; it includes the prime necessity of escaping boredom. Mr. Lodge's plea needs hearing at Harvard, where the number of men concentrating...
...success of the agreement lies in the chance that some members of one or more clubs will forget or not understand some provisions of the agreement and do something which will seem to the members of some other club or clubs to violate its terms. They in turn may be tempted to retaliate in kind, and then the fat will be in the fire. If the members of the clubs will keep in mind the essence of the agreement, which is that no attempts to influence a man as to his club affiliations are to be made until the opening...
...loss which finally resulted in a thorough reorganization of the nine. After three somewhat ragged preliminaries, the team took a southern trip on which it broke even, and on returning to Cambridge dropped a game to Bates. At that time the bright prospects seemed to have taken a new turn. Reed's knee was hampering his work at short, the problem at third was unsolved, and the pitching staff had failed to live up to expectations. However, the Bates game was the turning point in the 1915 season...
...example, those who knew the late Charles Francis Adams must turn to the Graduates' Magazine for the most comprehensive and appreciative of the current accounts of his life. Mr. Story sketches the career of this distinguished author and historian, sympathetically and intelligently, from the point of view of a life long friend...