Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presbyterian), the city of Edinburgh, football, his work as chaplain of the Canadian forces during the War. But almost everything taught him a lesson; when he could barely lift his arms after paddling a canoe on remote Lake Wanapitei, he found that "you don't forget what you learn through suffering." Only enjoyment that did not tempt him to moralize was listening to bagpipes. Whether he heard them in Edinburgh or in his family parlor, he gave himself up to wholehearted love for "the throbbing of the drones and the wild shriek of the chanter...
...overcoming student inertia by rewarding not only auditing but all forms of worth-while extra-course study; certainly, along with the American History Plan, auditing is potentially a means of furthering the ideal of the University-that every student shall receive a broad cultural training, shall "learn a new way of life...
...Exchange, Richard Whitney began misusing securities of the New York Yacht Club. By 1931, Depression had nicked him so badly that he used his position as a director of the Corn Exchange Bank to get an unsecured loan from it for $500,000. Morgan-Partner Francis Bartow happened to learn of this and arranged to have it exchanged for a $500,000 unsecured loan from J. P. Morgan...
...music. The chief present need is for men with broad vision who will keep the law functioning adequately." At the same time Mr. Landis expressed his disgust for the American passion for formalistic training--the "peculiar belief" that you've to take a course in a subject to learn anything...
...insolvency of Richard Whitney. ¶ After Burco, Inc., an investment trust, used 75% ($725.000) of its funds to acquire a minority interest in an inconspicuous Canadian company called Delta Oil Co., Ltd., the New York Curb Exchange suspended trading in Burco shares. The Curb said it was curious to learn what made Delta so valuable. New York Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. said he was curious to learn what connection there was between the Delta deal and the recent sale of Burco ownership to a group of Canadians. Quiet investigations by Mr. Bennett last week involved questioning men from...