Word: learned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Members of the Graduate Department not graduates of Harvard College who applied to be admitted to candidacy for degree of A. B. or A. M. this year, can learn particulars of the secretary, Mr. Bolles...
BOXING.- Pupils wishing to finish last winter's lessons, or others who would like to learn how to spar from an experienced professional, can do so by calling at my residence-Church street court, Somerville, Mass., ten minutes' walk from Memorial Hall...
...really hope you won't mind, but your work is not quite up to Dickens or Thackeray or Macaulay. It's really of no consequence, though, and I do hope you won't be offended," etc., etc. It seems to me that the gentleman in question should learn to criticize fairly and squarely himself, before inditing such a malicious and maligning tirade against a conscientious and able instructor...
...regret to learn that as yet but two men have come forward in response to the Glee Club's appeal for a whistler. Surely out of twelve hundred students, there should be more than two who consider themselves capable of filling the position. If the difficult solos that resound nightly through the entries, can be taken as evidence, we should feel justisfied in saying that there is plenty of talent in college though, perhaps, as yet uncultivated. Men who were here two years ago will remember what an addition to the glees Mr. Cary's whistling made. The Glee Club...
...cheerful as a treadmill; he can not afford a horse, even if he knew how to ride. To him a walk is about all there is left. It is cruelty to compel him to do work which he loathes, and he is likely to get little encouragement to learn games that he does not know. On the other hand there are those to whom proficiency in games is an instinct, and the gaudium certaminis a stimulant-almost an intoxicating one. To advise these men to take sober walks that they may avoid over-exertion and broken bones, is an absurdity...