Word: convert
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evils of the marking system, the extra work and trouble given the professor, going sometimes so far as to convert the instructor into a mere automatic registering machine, the impossibility of a fair and accurate adjustment of relative rank, and above all the danger of leading students to work for marks rather than for broad scholarship, have been so often and so forcibly demonstrated as to need no more than mention. These evils we avoid. The students in the seminary courses have no further incentives than the love of the study and the natural emulation that arises of working together...
...American buncombe and shams, now hangs his haughty head in humiliation of spirit, and privately pours out the vials of his wrath upon Oscar's devoted head. Poor Oscar, hard is thy fate indeed! When thou hadst thought to win honor and fame upon this foreign strand, and to convert the souls of the heathen to the bliss of intensity and the high mysteries of art, thy friends and kindred turn from thee and forsake thee...