Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With vacation only a few hours in the future and the prospect of leaving Harvard for a few, short days looming up as a welcome change to the brain weary vagabond, his thoughts turn to the many happenings in Boston during the next week...
...their steady growth and use the two libraries in McKinlock Hall have shown that they fill a very definite place in the college equipment. With the announcement yesterday of the resignation of Dean C.N. Greenough '98, it is interesting to turn to this one of his many enterprises...
...dark recesses of the old sanctum need to be disinfected?", queries Dr. Gregg. "Do certain men too much handicapped physically to express themselves in sports turn to the Lampoon as an out-let? Is the Lampoon editor too happy go-Lucky to care for his health and does he fall a ready victim: or is it merely that, as we know in medicine, tuberculosis is seldom a depressing disease--in fact, is often characterized by an unusual quickness of mind and optimism of spirit...
...absolutely unanimous condemnation of the West Chester head's action and attitude which the press has offered is a hopeful indication. It is possible that the right of free speech may have to be ingrafted into the educational system by external sources. Public opinion is turning and with it must turn the iron schoolmasters. Even the most opiniated authorities may credit some weight to the statement of such men as Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York who says, regarding the affair that he ". . deplores such attacks, whether by the American Legion or any other patriotic organization, which...
...colonist, in the intensity of his Protestantism, had already rejected the historic outcome of Christianity, and to a large extent the ideals and modes of life which had gone with it. Three thousand miles of ocean merely made his disassociation from the past more permanent. The disassociated colonist, in turn, produced the pioneer, who renouncing even the fragments of European culture remaining on the sea-board sought an outlet for his restless vigor in the conquest of the wilderness. The frontier vanished; industrialism offered a new channel for his boundless energies. The pioneer became the business man. Pragmatists like James...