Word: turn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...system, to themselves so attractive, they have at least had the opportunity of seeing the folly of utterly groundless speculation. For our own part, though changes in some particulars of our present system are eminently desirable, we are willing to give up all thought of ultra-marine emulation, and turn our efforts toward that rank among American colleges which is already ours in point of years...
...late, however, the system has been gradually changing. Literary Ruskins have begun to turn their attention to the education of the classic world, to revolutionize the old system of reading and enjoying works of ancient genius, to replace it by their new method of parsing and dissecting them...
...college is not what it should be. Broader principles of education must be developed, and men induced, by a feeling of personal responsibility and free choice, to take in hand the guidance of their own fortunes, and begin to think for themselves. Then only will this College turn out men of well-balanced minds, capable of filling the high positions which should be theirs by right of social and educational advantages...
...turn in despair to leave the scene...
...turn on us their gentle...