Word: convert
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Porter of Yale has been delivering some excellent observations on the two recent propositions which seem to promise results of the greatest importance to American university education, namely, the plan of establishing a great American school of Philosophy at Princeton and the proposed attempt to convert Columbia College into a great national university...
...meeting of the trustees of Columbia College, last week, in New York, the project was discussed of appealing to the citizens of New York and of the country at large for aid to enable them to convert the college into a metropolitan university, where students who are now compelled to go to European universities can obtain thorough instruction in the higher branches of learning...
...originally expressed orally at a public meeting; but that they are wholly absurd and readily fallacious in statement is hardly to be believed, even by one who has read them carefully and is no ardent extremist on either side. As regards this matter, I have already learned of one convert to protection having been made by them, and I hope that others will be induced to investigate further the opposing arguments of both parties...
...Yale News is the latest convert to the "Harvard idea" in the matter of college athletics. It states very well the theory that has so often been expressed at Harvard of late, when it says: "The trouble with college athletics is not that they occupy too much of the attention of the students, but that they are not for the many. That the majority of college men are content to take their exercise by proxy - in reading and talking about the work done by the nine and crew rather than in doing a reasonable amount for themselves...
...throughout all the colleges of this country, and why its agitation and promotion should not be undertaken directly by college men. Of course there are many whose views on the reform are doubtful or who are professedly opposed to it; but it should be the aim of others to convert such opponents to their own faith. At Harvard especially, where so great an interest is taken in all historical and economic studies, the formation of such an association would seem especially advisable and its prospects for success particularly bright. Participation in practical politics is certainly the duty of all educated...