Word: turnly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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What a splendid thing it is to be endowed with a fertile imagination! There are those men in our society who can imagine almost anything there is a call for. They can turn their attention from one thing to another with equal facility and grace and imagine almost anything one might wish. They can close their eyes and see images or facts so clearly that on opening them they are morally convinced that what they have seen is true. It was an individual on this order that imagined the "authoritative statement that Coach Haughton had consented to serve for several...
...first half the teams were evenly matched and neither side was able to gain consistently. The Seniors out-played the Sophomores in the first part of the second half, but were in turn out-played later in the same period. The features of the game were long runs by Brooks and Dick. N. H. Foster and Floyd in the backfield and Park in the line did the best for the Sophomores, while Brooks and Hoffman excelled for the Seniors...
...these two men--one the wise and brilliant guide to the beauty of the past, the other the national leader in the advance towards intellectual freedom. In the "normal" class also belongs Mr. Grandgent's story, "The 'Medomac'." This is a thoroughly healthy tale of ghosts that turn out to be pirates, and mysterious uncles that reappear in order to die melodramatic deaths. Two pieces of verse may also be classed among the contributions which are "normal": Mr. Britten's translation of one of Paul Verlaine's lyrics, charming except for the clumsy third stanza; and Mr. Douglas's "Fourteen...
...bleachers blue turn pale with fright...
...things. It can select from the large array of songs submitted six or eight of the best and try them out hurriedly at the mass meetings, or it can pick out one or two songs from the compositions contributed which it feels tolerably certain will prove satisfactory, and turn them over to the mass meeting to be learned thoroughly. This year's Committee has adopted the latter course. The circumstances this year practically necessitated this action. It was the Committee's opinion that of the forty songs submitted the great majority were not singable at all, while a few showed...