Word: learned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...their councils they must learn this truth...
...beware how he ventures to assume this character, if it is not inborn. It is not an easy part to assume, and all labor will be in vain unless there exist a priori some natural adaptation for it. One must learn to have perfect control of himself, his watchfulness must never relax; for one little word, one involuntary smile, may destroy a reputation which it has taken years to acquire. The world does not ask for truth, does not ask if a character be genuine; but it does ask that it be consistent with itself...
...finding. Why is it that students electing this course are never given an opportunity of inspecting specimens of metals, fossils, and rocks, to which continual reference is made, and the description of which forms no small portion of the work used as a text-book? Students are compelled to learn the classification of rocks, their various subdivisions, and the numerous qualities of many in their simple state, and of some after they have been changed by subterraneous action; and this, too, without having seen a single specimen. Nearly every student who has elected this course feels that this method...
THOSE who exercise on the river will be glad to learn that the following distances are stated accurately: From the Boat House to the third bridge the distance is I 3/8 miles; from the third bridge to the Union Boat House, 2 miles; from the Union Boat House to West Boston Bridge, 3/8 of a mile; from West Boston bridge to East Cambridge bridge, 1/2 a mile; from the Brighton bridge above the Boat House to the first bridge below, 1/2 a mile; from the Boat House to the Watertown Arsenal, 2 3/8 miles...
...opinion of the Vassar Miscellany. Three months we have been waiting to read their comments; many times we have repented permitting any one to criticise their taste or their wisdom. But the editors are forgiving; they return good for evil. The author of "Literary Ruskinism" will be pleased to learn that his article was especially praised; but he may not be inclined to adopt their advice, and drop Greek at the end of this year. This number of the Miscellany in some respects is not so brilliant as the preceding, but there is less to censure, less, too, perhaps...