Word: learned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most important advantages arising from that palladium of our college liberties, the elective system, was that we should be allowed to select the direction in which to grow wise. I fondly believed that after our Freshman year we were supposed to know what we wanted to learn, and that the learned professor would do his best to give us instruction in that subject and that subject only. For instance, I imagined that when a man took our Fine Arts elective he was supposed to be consumed with a burning desire for useful knowledge concerning the construction of aesthetic chimney-pots...
...Learn truer wit, thy rich wines strain...
...excuses for absences, tardmesses, or omissions must be presented before two o'clock of the Monday following the irregularity. All petitioners are required to come to the Dean's office within the week after the presentation of their petitions to learn the decision of the Faculty concerning their requests...
SEEK not to learn, Leuconoe...
FROM the calendar of college events published in the World, we learn that March 8 is the day appointed for "opening of medical lecturer" at Vermont University, and that a similar ceremony is to be performed on the 13th, at Boston University. Whether, owing to a scarcity of subjects, the lecturers are compelled to operate on themselves, or whether the classes intend to cut their instructors, has not yet transpired...