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Word: turning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have discovered among college students, I have come ultimately to the statement, 'I didn't really want to come to college; I just did it to please the family.' It develops that the student has been persuaded into college by his parents and his contemporaries (who have in turn been influenced by their parents), and then found himself in an environment which is totally unsympathetic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Dean William I. Nichols Writes in Atlantic Monthly on the Convention of Going to College | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

Among the promising men expected to turn out from last year's Freshman aggregation are N. N. Cochrane '32 and S. W. Keck '32, the latter all-American school-boy choice of two seasons ago and one of the most valuable players on last season's Freshman outfit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM TO START PRACTICE ON NEXT MONDAY | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

...civilization that appreciate the true values lying beneath the chaos that prevails in China today. But with transportation and communication as far developed as they are now this Westernization cannot be long delayed, and it may be consoling to the friends of China that it may turn out for the best. For the Golden Age of the Empire is a thing of the past and if the country that still treasures its remains is to enjoy the benefits that a younger culture has to offer, it can only be by learning the methods by which it has been built...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YENCHING OPENS | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

...definite inkling of what might happen very soon. In fact Joe might well have quit then if it had not been that he was unwilling to leave his friends in the lurch. This year however he never signed a contract and though it was hoped that he might turn up late, the worst was feared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Retirement of Joe Forecast Becomes a Reality as the Famous Prognosticator Marries--Successor Sought | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

President Bernard Barnes '30 will address the assembled candidates, outlining the general nature of work on the CRIMSON, and then will turn them over to the respective department heads for more detailed explanation of the four competitions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON OPENS ITS PORTALS TONIGHT | 9/25/1929 | See Source »

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