Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Temporarily obscured by Vassar's course in marriage, Harvard's lead in educational liberalism has been recaptured by the announcement that a course in child psychology will be given next year. At long last the University has succumbed to the silent protest that the scholars in Cambridge learn how to read and speed but not the science of upbringing. Perhaps the public feels that Harvard men will make poor fathers, or no fathers at all, after seeing them emerge from Widener, bleary eyed and exhausted. Perhaps it feels students should have some other outlet besides riots for their pent...
...reading Latin poetry and touching up a few sonnets. He writes easily but carefully. Manuscripts are set aside for long periods of time; then if necessary undergo severe revision. It is no wonder he's been called the best modern prose stylist. Yet you will recall he didn't learn English until he was nine; and then he learned it "by ear". He knew the music of the language long before he knew its construction. Personally, I've never heard anyone speak purer English...
Coach Connibear never did sit in a rowing shell or pull an oar. Instead he set out to learn and teach rowing through contemplation, which he attended to at night while sitting on a nail keg in the boathouse...
lines. Read that report: "Effective [banking] support cannot be obtained merely for a particular occasion. It can only be the result of intimate co-operation over years during which the financial interests get an insight into the problems and requirements of the industry in question and the industrial interests learn the value of the support which financial interests can give." As to Commissioner Douglas' proposal for more competitive bidding for certain new issues, Banker Hall cited the Interstate Commerce Commission, which after long study concluded that except on equipment bonds-a highly-standardized type of security-the railroads could...
...prevent it. But do you think that helped? Not a bit. Every move I made they were 30 seconds ahead of me." Best-behaved, observed Guide Casey, are rural students. "I can pick them out every time. They take more interest in the displays, try to see everything and learn more than any of the others...