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Word: learned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...part of the sum asked for three years ago has been obtained. An announcement reaches us with the president's report, which should be referred to in this connection. It is the programme of courses in the Oriental and Hamitic languages offered for the present year. From this we learn that the most complete department of its kind in America exists at Columbia, and that, under the inspiring leadership of so cultured a scholar as Dr. H. T. Peck, no fewer than nineteen courses in the Oriental and Hamitic languages are announced. This is a remarkable showing, and when considered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 11/1/1887 | See Source »

Therefore, let every man interest himself in cricket. Let him join the association and if he does not try to learn this admirable game at least let him support the team and show that he for one is interested in the welfare of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/14/1887 | See Source »

...crowd which behaved in so disgraceful a manner, was almost entirely composed of those who have been here long enough to learn the spirit of the institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 10/8/1887 | See Source »

...whole heart and soul into the game and work to bring his college out first in the contest. A scant four weeks is all the time that remains before the first championship game takes place and in that space of time men must get into perfect training and learn all the new tricks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/7/1887 | See Source »

...record of the lives of men in groups. History is not the philosophy of history. Many believe that history is all in the books. In this they are much mistaken-as much as they would be if they should refer natural science and language to books. If one should learn history he must go the original sources. There are the conscious and the unconscious sources. The primitive American knew nothing of his relations to the past and the future, but by his acts he unwittingly has given us facts of his existence, as is shown by the relics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Emerton's Lecture. | 10/6/1887 | See Source »

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