Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...benefit of the curious, we will state that the Northwestern University is at Evanston. We learn from the title-page that Evanston is in Illinois; we regret that we cannot indicate its situation more definitely to our readers, as our latest atlas is only brought down to the year...
...colleges and lyceums of France, during which a formal distribution of prizes is made to the leading scholars. When one has ended this course of study, he is ready to undergo the examinations for the degree of Bachelier-es-Lettres. Perhaps you would not be unwilling to learn what a bachelier is supposed to know. You will thus gain an idea of what the baccalaureat is. The examination is divided into two parts, the oral and the written. The written part consists of a translation of a passage, taken at random, from some Latin poet or author, to the performance...
...authority) that the rumors of his having gone to England for some purpose connected with the commons, connected with the professorship of Zoology, and with the method of conducting examinations, are unfounded; and it is asserted with the greatest confidence that the real object of his visit is to learn the English stroke...
...were much surprised to learn that an impression has spread to some extent among graduates that the columns of the Magenta are not open to them. This we understand has been inferred from the style of our heading, which says that the paper "is published by the students of. Harvard College." Now, publishing a paper is a far different thing from contributing to it, and this wording was never meant to preclude contributions on pertinent subjects from outsiders, particularly from graduates of the College...
...agitated about the intellectual tournament, which (judging from the action of the Hartford convention) has dwindled down into something rather superior to an old-time spelling-match, but inferior to a good peppery debate in some Philopolysyllabic fraternity of Western fame. Apropos of the above, we are grieved to learn that black corruption has been at work in the proceedings of the convention. Vide the following extract from the Daily Saratogian...