Word: convert
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...definitely to transfer Harvard's athletic activity entirely to Soldiers Field the question came up as to what should be done with the old Carey Building on Holmes Field where the baseball cage was situated. It was decided that the Corporation should purchase it from the athletic authorities and convert it into quarters for the Architectural School...
...Republican platform "straddled" the currency question: ibid, 1893, p. 32.- (d) The Democratic platform of 1892 was for "sound money": ibid, 1893, p. 35.- (e) In 1893 the Democratic government repealed the disastrous Sherman Law: ibid, 1894. p. 115.- (f) The Democrats alone are working to convert supporters of silver: Harper's XL, 266-7; Louisville Post, quoted in Boston Herald, April 14, 1896.- (x) Hoke Smith in Georgia.- (y) Carlisle in Kentucky.- (z) In Maryland, Tenn., and Alabama.- (3) The Democrats are most likely to give us good government "now our most vital concern."- (a) They are successfully making...
...methods employed are illadapted to the undertaking to convert people to Christianity.- (a) Missionaries provoke opposition and hatred rather than confidence.- (x) Missionaries do not conform to the customs of the natives.- (y) They are lavish in their mode of living.- (b) To the Mohammedans and Budhists, and even to the ignorant heathen, the Christianity of the missionaries is not very attractive.- (x) The missionaries present the Christianity infected with the bitter internal animosities of numerous opposing sects.- (y) Missionaries constantly squabble among themselves, either for more preferment from home, or for more influence among the natives.- (z) The natives...
...kind of superstitious veneration peculiar to the East. When the man was healed of his infirmity, he wished to show his devotion to Jesus and to follow him as a disciple. He was restrained, however, and when the Gadarenes, being afraid of Christ, asked him to leave them, the convert was left behind as his witness. The man remained, and spent the rest of his life preaching the Gospel to the Gadarenes...
...students or else in refusing to grant it, to refuse on the ground that a more intimate knowledge of the matter in hand would reverse the opinion of the signers of this request. Having taken the latter course, they owe to their constituency an explanation sufficiently sound to convert the signers of the remonstrance. Should they refuse to make this explanation, the directors would prove themselves disloyal to the men who have placed them in office...