Word: turning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR.- Your letter at hand submitting dates for the annual games between Yale and Harvard freshmen. I am sorry to say that they are not entirely convenient to us; so I will, In turn, propose the following dates...
...custom at Harvard to raise by general subscription large sums of money whenever they are required for the maintenance and welfare of some special department. So far this has been the case only with those departments whose workshop and laboratory is not the college library. Now it is the turn of those branches of learning-of philology, literature, philosophy, political economy, history, mathematics, and music-for the very existence of which the reading-room in Gore Hall is a necessity, to call upon Harvard's many and kind friends to come to the aid of their alma mater...
...Williams contributes to the February number a sketch of Bokhara. It is a story of the reform of the affairs of the Persian kingdom by the Emir, who was called the "Father of the Wise." To turn the thoughts of his people from sordidness to the knowledge of higher things, the Emir hit upon the "Sand Plain of Bokhara." a City of Truth to the dwelling-place of sages from every nation. In this way was inaugurated the celebrated school of Bokhara...
...does not now. The room ought to be enlarged, or the addition of a shower bath built on the rear of the gymnasium, else it will practically be impossible to bathe between five and half-past five in the afternoons without getting out of all patience waiting for a turn. A little money expended on the bathing facilities in the gymnasium would certainly go a great way in restoring a man's comfort and peace of mind after exercising...
When a man is preparing for the examinations, he is naturally anxious to get some idea of the sort of papers the various instructors are accustomed to set before their classes, so that he may be able to turn his labors to the best account. This has been recognized by the authorities at the library to a certain extent, and recent papers have been collected and bound for use in the reading room; but for some reason the assortment is by no means as complete as it should be. The mid-year papers have not been kept for the past...