Word: turning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...America" parade which is to be held in Boston on Saturday afternoon, April 6, in connection with the opening of the Third Liberty Loan campaign. In preparation for this event the Corps will change its schedule of training to a certain extent next week, and will turn its attention to attaining perfection in close order drill instead of continuing the position and aiming exercises which have constituted a large part of the work in the past three weeks. The bayonet work will continue as before...
...Another new sensation is our new Harvard College President. King Log has made way for King Stork . . . . I cannot help being amused at some of the scenes we have in our medical faculty; this cool young man proposing in the calmest way to turn everything topsy-turvy, taking the reins into his hands as if he were the first man that ever...
...course we are aware that it is a very difficult task to turn out a strong team in one year, especially handicapped as Harvard is by the lack of a tank. However, a start could be made next year, and it seems reasonable to suppose that in a few years Harvard would be one of the strongest contenders for the championship in the Intercollegiate Association, due to its enrolment and the quantity of good material that would be drawn from the New England schools, should Harvard take up this sport...
...again. And if we look at the Napoleonic and Civil Wars we see that they were both followed by ages of materialism. There has been an enormous destruction of material and loss of wealth in this war, and it is but natural that the thoughts of all should turn at once to building and saving. But if that is all we think of, we are gone. The young men must say, 'We will not allow things to drop while we save, but will spend our time in building...
...stimulating among students an active interest in after-the-war problems. That men in the heat of the present struggle have in the most part neglected the rather indefinite yet inevitable reconstructions which must surely follow the war is only too true. That men must from now on turn their energies to the institutions of the future is equally certain. The need may be well met by the introduction of small discussion groups, led by men not only competent in their field, but able to arouse active thought in the minds of the indifferent. Such a plan will serve...