Word: turning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spirit of learning will not flourish spontaneously, it might well be kindled with a compulsory formality. By the end of the Freshman year the student has accustomed himself to the freedom of College life and is open to suggestion as to the direction towards which to turn his energy. At this period a required conference with an adviser on the Degree with Distinction and a definite opportunity to enroll as a candidate might be made a regular College engagement. At least the present insufficient advertisement of the honor would thus be remedied...
...made derogatory remarks about the futility of it all. It was the current belief of this generation that the men who eventually amounted to something in the world spent their time in the agreeable dalliance of College society while they were undergraduates and then in their professional schools would turn to their life work, taking there high rank and attaining in the world of men immediate success. This was reinforced in their minds by the gossip of their elders to the effect that first scholars in college drifted into the obscurity of the ill-paid school-teacher or the unknown...
...wishing to end their days together, tell their respective children, Percinet and Sylvette, that they are mortal enemies, in the hope that if the young people are forbidden to meet, they will seek to do so, and thereby fall in love. But as the children are of a romantic turn of mind, the stratagem succeeds too well, and they become so haughty and arrogant to one another that their fathers are compelled to tell them the truth. Then they separate, and Percinet sets out into the world to seek adventure. Bergamin and Pasquinot, thrown into too close intimacy, soon grow...
...yesterday's CRIMSON, "has nominated the following men according to the constitution of the proposed Council"? As it appears to an ordinary observer, to proceed constitutionally, it will be necessary, first, to ratify the new Council, then to have its ex-officio members appoint a nominating committee, which, in turn, will publish a list of nominees. The CRIMSON furthermore believes that the present list of nominations is not in every respect as representative a one as could be drawn...
...view of the fact that the New Haven House is being turn down, visitors to New Haven at the time of the Yale-Harvard game will find the restaurants in town more over-crowded than usual. Yale University authorities have therefore thrown open the University Dining Hall to all Harvard men and their guests. The dining hall, situated on Grove and College streets, will be open to all today, tomorrow and Monday. Meals will be served at the following hours...