Word: learned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when he comes to college, has no very clear idea of how to conduct himself at recitations, certainly he ought to have had ample chance to learn in the first half-year, and after the mid-years be able to go into a lecture-room and sit for an hour without either disgracing himself or disturbing his neighbors...
...Dexter, 1st, Keyes, J. G. King, McCoy, Marvin, Meeker, L. H. Morgan, J. H. Morse, Mumford, F. R. Parker, R. F. Perkins, J. H. Sears, Storrow, B. T. Tilton, B. C. Weld, Whitridge. They will please be in the gymnasium on Saturday at 10.15 a. m. sharp to learn their duties. Those unable to usher will please notify me beforehand...
...service was opened with the singing of the anthem "Alla Trinita." Dr. Andrew P. Peabody preached the sermon from the text found in the forty-second verse of the twenty-second chapter of Matthew: "Whose son is he?" It is often possible to learn the traits of a father from a close knowledge of the character of a son. Christ himself said, "If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also," and in the life of Christ we have had a perfect likeness of God's goodness and purity. In these days the trouble is that those...
...Henry Villard, of New York, will speak in German on "Das Deutschland von Heute." Mr. Villard is a fine German scholar, has traveled considerably in Germany, and has been in close relations with Prince Bismark, so that those who understand German, by attending the lecture tonight, will undoubtedly learn much that is of interest in regard to the present political outlook of Germany...
...through all the ages since they have been the same living poems that they are to us now. It is almost impossible for us to conceive the influence which the poems of Homer has upon the minds and hearts of the Greeks. At first it was their privilege to learn these poems only from recitals. Not on this account, however, was there any lack of opportunity to gain a knowledge of the stories of the Iliad and the Odyssey. On every occasion possible- at games, at feasts, at public and private assemblies- the bard or rhapsode was given the place...