Word: turning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Literature, Philosophy, or the Sciences. One cannot get far in any one of these subjects without a reading knowledge of one of these two languages. A man who has passed the Orals is supposedly able to read French or German with sufficient case so that he will actually turn to works in one or the other of the two languages when he wishes to go more deeply into the subjects in which he is interested. The Orals exist, then, for the purpose of making it necessary for every Harvard man to be able to read either French or German with...
...Orals accomplish this purpose? Have the men who have passed the Orals sufficient ability to make them wish to turn to works in French or German if they desire from them information or pleasure? A few, perhaps, have such ability, but in the great majority of cases the answer is most decidedly in the negative. The Orals are inadequate; they do not accomplish what they...
...that venerable engine of superficial sanitation,--the broom, the electric vacuum cleaner might be substituted, will doubtless be met with the objection that the change would be financially impractical. The answer is that even one vacuum cleaner would suffice for each dormitory. Every room could be cleaned in turn once a week, and on the other six days the broom would perhaps prove a more capable adversary for the ever-present reminder of man's mortality...
...compete for the second assistant managership of the University association football team have a final chance to report, at Thayer 7 tomorrow night at 7.30 o'clock. The work consists of clerical work in connection with soccer, and also work on the field. More candidates are urged to turn out, and men who report tomorrow will not be seriously handicapped in the competition...
...minor injury to Gilman's ankle, but it is improbable that this will keep him out of the play for more than a day or two. D. C. Watson '16 is still taking a rest, and in his absence yesterday, Willcox, Boles, Murray and Doherty each had a turn at running the team...