Word: learn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland spoke first of the difference between this age and the last in the art of reading and speaking. It was not until very recently, he said, that there was the slightest desire shown by the students to learn to read and to speak well. He accounted for this in part by the fact that men had so much less time to devote to reading now than in the past century, and in order to keep up with the times they let the grand old writers go, to spend their time in reading magazines and new novels. He spoke further...
...make up two elevens every day. Nothing is more demoralizing to the team than that there should be hardly men enough to form a single eleven. There can be no competition, and consequently no snap in the play. Worse, there can be no good practice, for a team cannot learn to play football by going through tricks and learning how they should line up without a second eleven to line up against. There are plenty of heavy and strong men, who know football, in Ninety-five and there are many more who can learn. It is a shame that...
...future years. It has been pointed out to us by a member of the Faculty that by these earlier issues the paper may be of substantial service to the University. Hundreds of new members are gathering in Cambridge; to them Harvard is a world unknown and hard to learn. It is our purpose to furnish them with as much information as possible which will be of practical help in these opening days. We shall distribute the paper without charge until Friday morning...
...wise to translate consciously and in words as we read. There is no such help to a fuller mastery of our vernacular. It compels us to such a choosing and testing, to such a nice discrimination of sound, propriety, position, and shade of meaning, that we now first learn the secret of the words we have been using or misusing all our lives, and are gradually made aware that to set forth even the plainest matter, as it should be set forth, is not only a very difficult thing, calling for thought and practice, but an affair of conscience...
What I would urge, therefore, is that no invidious distinction should be made between the Old Learning and the New, but that students, due regard being had to their temperaments and faculties, should be encouraged to take the course in modern languages as being quite as good in point of mental discipline as any other, if pursued with the same thoroughness and to the same end. And that end is Literature, for there language first attains to a full consciousness of its powers and to the delighted exercise of them. Literature has escaped that doom of Shinar whcih made...