Word: turning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...business management falls off on the top of the boom because the offices are too busy to pay attention to details and small wastes. Then there is an increase in long time borrowing, closely followed by a rise of interest and a complaint of tight capital. This in turn leads to a reluctance to make further investments and an increase of demands for short time loans. The last step before the process of liquidation is reached when prospective profits, really the collateral of credit, begin to decrease and there is great danger that the great structure of credit will topple...
...those who must stay at College that the Thanksgiving evening gathering at Phillips Brooks House was devised. Its essential spirit is informality and agreeable fellowship, for which Thanksgiving time has come to stand. It is a place where men can go to meet their comrades in misfortune and turn part of the day, at least into a time of genial cheer and friendly entertainment. No feeling of embarrassment or reticence should keep any man from the gathering; it is intended for every Harvard man who needs it to fill up his day. In the past it has, and tomorrow...
...thought that the Stadium has never seen Yale defeated has galled us long enough. It is time that the prophecy of 1904's Ivy Orator was fulfilled and the Stadium Field made the graveyard of a Yale team. That is why every one of us has got to turn out to administer some more of the thrills that count...
...Yale ends are supposed to be weak. Perhaps they are, but at least against Princeton they managed to turn Baker into the folds of a net composed of Blue tackles, guards and a centre, with the result that the wonderful Baker man no kick more than five yards towards Yale's goal...
...been to 1914. Seniors still remember the desperate ninth inning rally which converted seemingly sure defeat to a tie. The enthusiasm with which the men in the stands came to the support of their team was the real climax of class spirit that year. If 1917 will only turn out today to imitate that spirit we are confident of the result. The first Freshman contest of the year with Yale should be the be- ginning of a true class feeling which will last through graduation and beyond...