Word: transforming
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...give us any ground for suspecting a leaven of prejudice or self-interest in their advocacy. For this reason it is to be noticed that the two colleges - Princeton and Williams - which lead off the attempt to establish the Intercollegiate literary contests, have not been among the foremost to transform school-boys into students. The President of one of them, who is understood to be strongly in favor of the proposed plan, has already made widely known his views upon College discipline, and it is not unnatural that he should now wish to lead into the arena his well-tamed...