Word: convert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dignified educational controversy arose at the recent Amherst Alumni conference, led on one hand by President Hopkins of Dartmouth and on the other by Dean Hawkes of Columbia. Are four years in college a waste of time? Would it not be better to convert the college into two year advanced preparatory school, concentrate there on cultural development, and then send a south law school, business school or architectural school? No, said President Hopkins, as one might expect. Yes, said Dean Hawkes, equally consistent with the institution he represented. The junior college and the professional school of a large university, said...
Last week's political impasse sent the franc tumbling to 25 to the dollar. Frenchmen rushed to convert their francs into stable currencies and stable foreign bonds. "A buying panic" ensued-brokers labored late, smiling...
Said Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Mayor of New York City: "Such a decision certainly is a violation of the right of every American citizen to promulgate religion, for that right certainly includes the right to promulgate atheism. When a group of persons take up atheism and wish to convert others to it, then atheism itself becomes a religion and all the rights concerning religious freedom apply...
...common ground of general culture. I fail to see why tutorial instruction should be confined within the limits of the field of concentration; after all, the tutor is a teacher of the student as a student and not as a possible specialist. So, if the tutor cannot convert the average student into a specialist, he can nevertheless help him become an educated...
...fared well until he reached :he age of 36, and then the wanderlust came upon him, and he wished very dearly to convert the heathen in Frisia*. So he traveled there but was soon expelled by the King Radbod. Three years later the Pope (Gregory II) sent him to Germany converting, baptizing, success in Bavaria and Thuringia, but, hearing of King Radbod's death, he rushed back to Frisia. Three years after he returned to Thuringia and Hesse. He converted so many heathen chieftains and common people that the Pope summoned him to Rome and made him a bishop...