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Word: turns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fact. The proof that you are right may not be clear before the day of judgment (or some stage of Being which that expression may serve to symbolize) is reached. But the faithful fighters of this hour, or the beings that then and there will represent them, may then turn to the fainthearted who here decline to go on, with words like those with which Henry IV greeted the tardy Crillon after a great victory had been gained: 'Hang yourself, brave Crillon! we fought at Arques, and you of all men were not there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor James's Address. | 4/26/1895 | See Source »

Three or four steps from the vestibule at the entrance is a mosaic-tiled landing. A door to the left leads to another vestibule, which in turn has a door leading to the dean's room. The dean's room is about sixteen feet square, and it is fitted up in hard wood. From the landing already mentioned are four doors, leading to as many rooms, which are about twelve feet square. These are to be used by the professors. Two or three steps more lead to another and longer landing hall. This leads to two recitation rooms. They...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale's Law School Building. | 4/26/1895 | See Source »

...which are to be held on Holmes Field this afternoon. The spirit in which any athletic team goes through a season's work depends very much on the interest manifested by the University at large on the occasion of such public contests as those of today. If men will turn out in good numbers to support their respective classes, their very presence will tend to heighten interest in track athletics and indirectly give encouragement to the University track team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/12/1895 | See Source »

...which incased in the ice are the traitors of various degrees. By this pool they meet and conquer Dis, or Satan, once the fairest of Heaven's angles. The picture of Satan is the most horrible and monstrous to be found in the work. After leaving Dis they turn their faces upward till at length they come forth upon the surface of the earth to see again the stars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DIVINE COMEDY. | 4/6/1895 | See Source »

...course of lectures on "Historic Harvard" would be most instructive and delightful. Our interest in the past would be increased, our love for Harvard and her traditions deepened, and our life for the short time we are here be made more full of association and sentiment. Can we not turn the present enthusiasm for lectures and lecturers to account? We do not need to go outside of Cambridge for the very men most suited for this task. What more pleasing and fruitful subject could a speaker choose than "Harvard in the Past"? If the History Department of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/4/1895 | See Source »

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