Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work on the News Board provides wide fields of interest for a candidate, especially when he is a Freshman. It enables him to learn about the inner workings of the University, to find out facts in a few weeks which might take him two or three years to discover if he were just an ordinary mortal in the College...
This admirable plan should have great educational values for the Harvard men involved, as they will learn a great deal from the students with whom they come into contact, in addition to improving their knowledge of their own courses. It will be a great incentive to each undergraduate to do his daily work thoroughly, as he will be spurred on by the knowledge that someone else is depending on his notes, and also by the natural human desire to do his job well. The clever undergraduate may even have his student do some of his optional reading work...
...been returned at latest dispatches, and Christians were blowing up still more Moslem homes in reprisal for the burning of the airport. The Mohammedan world, familiar with the methods of a Christian whom they called "The Strongman of Bengal" when he was police commissioner of Calcutta, was incensed to learn that Strongman Sir Charles Augustus Tegart is being sent to Palestine. Next they learned that in Daharieh the Christians, not satisfied with dynamiting houses in reprisal for the capture of a few rifles, had levied a collective fine of $10,000 on the whole village. Since the Moslem villagers were...
Live, Love and Learn (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) sends Robert Montgomery forth from a whimsical, penniless life in Manhattan's Washington Square section into battle against the stultifying wiles of Mammon. He is armed with artistic genius that "has something ostentatiously quiet about it," a facility with yellows unequaled since van Gogh and a respectable capacity for liquor. Mammon showers him with gold, distracts him with a nasty number named Lily, wins him from his garret with commissions to paint a portrait of Mrs. Colfax-Baxter, a study in oils of Mr. Palmiston's Derby winner, Blue Bolt. When...
...vision of Shangri-La and the theme "Keep the land!" have become very real things in the hearts of the movie-going public. Those who have seen either of the films know they cannot go wrong on a second visit; those who have seen neither will be pleased to learn that two of the greatest landmarks in screen history may be viewed for the mere crossing of Massachusetts Avenue...