Word: turning
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...seemed to be walking down a long hall, that ever opened before me in an endless vista. At last, far off, white and pale, I saw the figure of a woman coming towards me swiftly, terribly, like a ghost; I, coward enough in my dream, tried to turn away from her. I could stir neither hand nor foot. I pray God I may never again experience that feeling of powerless, supernatural terror. She drew nearer and nearer; and I recognized the face of Bertha Carlin. Then suddenly she stopped, pointed backward; the hall disappeared, the broad sea was before...
...this Harvard institution. Next they appeared at the evening readings, and, side by side with undergraduates, they follow the story of oedipus and his troubles; still no word was spoken. Finally, they receive their instruction in the College buildings, and as it would be a trifle too much to turn undergraduates out of one of their own laboratories for the sake of outsiders, both sexes work away at their tasks in the same room...
...what to do? or whither now to turn...
...essential to intelligent progress; and in view of this fact, some step should be taken to make the course equally profitable to all who have elected it for the purpose of getting the best results. To expect a student to wait a half hour for his turn with the instructor without losing his equanimity, to say nothing of the waste of time, is unreasonable. The course is too valuable and popular to hope for a reduction in the number from voluntary changes of electives, while the expenses already incurred, and the advance in the year, should prevent even the suggestion...
...always some students confined to their rooms, and the Board of Directors of the Dining Association would confer a great benefit if they employed an extra man, who could receive the food for all the sick students at the beginning of the meal, and take it to them in turn, carrying the different baskets of food in a hand-cart. This man could probably be used in some other way between meals, so that his time need not be wasted; and at the same time students confined to their rooms could have their baskets made up before half the bill...