Word: convert
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Class Day, as the name implies, should be a day for the members of '86 to entertain their friends. There has been a very noticeable tendency in past years to convert this day into a general holiday for the public of all classes of Cambridge and Boston. That the many objectionable characters who have thronged the yard on Class Day evening should not be allowed among our relatives and friends, needs of course only to be asserted...
These plans are very attractive, and would effect a great improvement upon the present condition of things; but it would be a better plan to convert the old Gore Hall into a fireproof bookstack, and to build a new reading-room on the north side, and so attached that no reasonable objection could be taken to lighting the room. Such a reading-room ought to have seats for at least 250 persons, and should be provided with coat-rooms and dressing-rooms, that students who have no rooms in Cambridge might find themselves comfortably provided for at the reading-room...
...last eleven years Yale has graduated nine hundred and sixteen free traders and but thirty protectionists. The majority of its alumni are protectionists, however, if President White, of Cornell, speaks truly, when he says that four years in business would convert three-fourths of the free trade college graduates to protection...
...societies in England Professor Tyndall remarked "that two factors were necessary to make a good teacher; first, he must be master of his work and have ability to inform and instruct; second, he must have the rare gift of being able to stimulate and incite his pupils and to convert the knowledge he posessed into to a lever lift, exercise and strengthen the growing minds committed to his care." Few realize the importance and truth that is contained in these simple words and we believe that many of the students do not even give a thought about the instructors they...
...batsmen. It is wrong to give them balls that they cannot knock into "kingdom come." It is shame to tease them by sending in curved spheres. In future, pitchers will deliver them straight at the bat so that nothing may baffle the aim of the batsman, who can thus convert his ash into a catapult, by whose means he may kill the pitcher, or anybody else on the field at will, to prove how much of an athlete he has become since he joined college. [Clipper...