Word: learned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FROM the Daily Saratogian we learn that the Columbia crew has arrived and gone into training quarters at the Lake. Two prizes, of $150 and $100, are to be presented by the ladies of Saratoga to the victors in the single-scull undergraduate race...
These considerations may furnish an excuse for the rather startling proposition at the head of this article: Note-Books at Examination. In college life we can master but little, yet we can learn where to look for a great deal. Whether our attention is sufficiently turned in that direction is a question I would candidly ask. Many an hour spent on rereading and memorizing notes when we have already sufficient understanding to use them as a work of reference, could be far more advantageously spent on subjects connected with our study. Notes on this outside reading would be so much...
...Amherst Student consists largely of Locals, Personals, Exchanges, Eclecta, Book Notices, and so forth, though there is an interesting letter from Heidelberg, and a very gushing article, called "A Plea for Nature," in which we learn that, "frantic worshippers of the pen, we cast ourselves before the ruthless car of knowledge, and the love of the natural, the beautiful, is crushed out of us forever." As Mrs. Partington says, "La, that's just what I told my daughter...
...Cadet.WE learn from the Cornell Times, that the long-mooted question whether Cornell is to have a crew or not has been decided in the affirmative. "As now composed, the crew row as follows: Miss Thomas, '75, Miss Ladd, '75, Miss Tilden and Miss Bruce, '77, with Prof. Byerly (Harvard) as coxswain. The crew will practise every afternoon at the usual time...
...many pages they can write in an hour, fill that amount of paper with headings of paragraphs, and are then ready. A consideration which gives the plan a favorable reception among this class is, that they need only find some one who has written out a good abstract and learn it, thereby saving themselves a vast amount of trouble. The case is not very different with the second class. They also calculate to a nicety how much they can possibly write in an hour. They make out their abstract, and cut it down if it is too long. They learn...