Word: turning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Russell, who pitched for the first nine innings, was touched for nine safeties, and was replaced by J. R. Meenan, who in turn gave way to W. B. Rice in the eleventh. The Freshmen were far below their usual batting form, getting only five hits in twelve innings...
...aeroplanes of the "Pleasure Flying Co." fell into the Charles River injuring the pilot, Ensign W. E. Nightingale '15 and killing the passenger, J. L. Allen, of Dorchester. The accident occurred near the Cottage Farm Bridge before a crowd of thousands, many of whom were waiting their turn. Ensign Nightingale, U. S. N., the pilot, jumped free just before the machine hit the water, while the passenger was caught. One of the University crews was in the vicinity and members of it assisted in the rescue work. Ensign Nightingale during the war was stationed at Bay Shore and later...
...introduction and in order to expose to full public view the news peg on which every newspaper story is supposed to hand, let it be declared that Harvard is doing itself and higher education in general a distinctly good turn in allowing any department to require general final examinations as a prerequisite for graduation. Incidentally, it is also doing the students a good turn, although it is not inconceivable that there might be some difficulty in getting the students to admit it. Boston Transcript
This new R. O. T. C. plan is the sensible and efficient way of using the present to prepare for the future-sensible because it does not interfere with the primary status of the university as an institution of higher learning and efficient because it promises to turn out officers possessing a broad foundation of general knowledge and with the practical training which modern warfare demands. The course will make no appeal to the student who seeks the easiest way to a college diploma. At best, the process of becoming an Army officer is serious business. Only by the hardest...
...Intercollegiate Aerial Tournament calls attention to the increasing importance of aviation and the role it will play in the future. In a recent editorial, the New York Tribune states, "Undoubtedly the Intercollegiate Aerial Tournaments will receive government support. Should there be another war the colleges will be able to turn out hosts of trained eaglets of the type of Quentin Roosevelt and Hobey Baker, ready for service. Trained collegiate aviators will make the United States air service a real factor the next time it is called upon. The transcontinental intercollegiate air race is not merely a possibility but a probability...