Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prize is given annually by the Deans of the College and Law School to the Senior in Harvard College proposing to enter the Law School "who shall be considered to be best fitted, by intellect, character, and physique, to be influenced by Saltonstall's example and in turn to influence others...
...Doren turns from time to time to Dr. Johnson, but not, in the scholarly fashion, to buttress a point: it is rather as if he had found in that practical, intelligent and independent critic a turn of mind often not dissimilar to his own. Independence is indeed the keynote of Mr. Van Doren's book. In putting behind him the apparatus and techniques of scholarship, he has dared to do what few other critics have done: he has come face to face with Shakespeare. He has recreated the Shakespearean world, and one would like to quote the entire book...
...marked contrast to the A. I. L. the new committee, composed largely of labor and leftist elements, set out to turn "nebulous peace sentiment into an articulate program" by the adoption of a definite policy even at the cost of alienating possible members...
...prints and paintings now on exhibit at Fogg Museum, when considered as a whole, can very easily turn a dull Cambridge afternoon into a few hours of interesting exploration. It is possible for one to travel from the highly sophisticated spirit of medieval Chinese art to the outspoken religious ardour found in the engravings of William Blake. With the Blake prints, some excellent pieces from Turner's "Liber Studiorum" can be seen, together with etchings and engravings by Goya and Delacroix. Blake's illustrations of passages from the Old Testament are reminiscent of the zealous poetry found in his "Prophetic...
Janitors defended themselves stoutly against the rumblings of undergraduate discontent, declaring that the "college is not cheating on the heat," and pointed out that the reason students are cold in their rooms is because they don't turn on the radiators...