Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York will turn out with all the fireboats and miles of paper streamers to greet him. That most skilled of welcomers, Mayor Walker, will offer him the keys to the city and he will find more of his countrymen on its streets than there are in his own capital. He will lecture on Rumanian politics and people will applaud him. He will attend dinners and be lionized. He will intrigue to his heart's content and no one will say him may until he has lived here for a while. Then he will decide that there is no reason...
...abolished even examinations and degrees, and that one, Pocono, is too small and casual to afford a fair test of this most radical of all academic ideas. Certain it is, however, that a means is going to be found to make the atmosphere of education electric and just turn the student loose in it. The trouble with examinations and monitors and lectures and conferences is that too often they serve as lightining-arresters, diverting the current of knowledge away from the student instead of into the very fibre of his being. Before they can be junked there will have...
Having presented this curious tabulation, Mrs. Goodwin said that most women would turn into ideal wives if they were equipped with "good plumbing, well-built kitchens and labor-saving devices of all sorts...
Coach F. G. Mitchell plans to give F. B. Cutts '28 a much-needed workout on the mound. It is likely, however, that Willard Howard '28 will relieve him, as Cutts may possibly be sent to the box for a turn against Michigan on Saturday. Present indications seem to point to J. N. Barbee '28 as starting pitcher in the clash with the Wolverine nine...
...Nowhere does general interest in a Student Council lag as much as at Harvard nowhere are the dangers of that Council's dying a natural death so great. If the Harvard Student Council is to continue to exist and to play an essential part in undergraduate life it must turn its attention with increasing energy and intelligence to those fields which still offer wide opportunities for its endeavors...