Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first two years of the student's training are spent on a multitude of courses which are planned to give him facility in drawing, painting, sketching, in the fundamentals of design, and in architectural construction, and in the use of building materials. Above all, he must learn to draw, and draw. So, too, must be have a firm background of history of architecture and the forces of civilization which forged the different styles and periods. Finally, architectural elements and motives flow easily from his hand, his imagination conceives and his mind and hand realizes these conceptions, while his drawings...
...great draughting room seems, it is really the heart of the School. Here it is that each man does most of his work cements friendships gives and seeks advice and criticism from his fellows. The beginner relies in great part upon the criticism of the most advanced student, and learns from him much of what he knows and will know. In return for this aid, he works on the preparation of the drawing and "projects" of the advanced man, glad to do so for what he will learn of the use of pigments, presentation of final drawings, representation of lights...
...only a few minutes a day to devote to trying to keep up with the world's news, I have felt myself almost wholly ignorant of the main facts in this recent strike. This evening, in a few minutes of interesting reading of TIME, I have been able to learn the essential facts in the situation. These are stated clearly, simply and effectively. I feel such a summary as this is worth a full year's subscription to TIME...
Said he: "I am not on the way to Poland. I do not know very much of the conditions there. What I did learn of the disturbances in Warsaw saddened me and made me worse. I am, in consequence of my illness, not fully acquainted with the facts. I deeply deplore the cruel and stupid bloodshed. It is my hope and ardent prayer that what may still happen will be for the good of my country and for peace. That...
...know exactly what he denotes by waste is rather imperative before one suggests that his statement is as superficial as it is general. If he means that one does not learn plumbing in college or exactly the best way to dodge the income tax or make pongee pajamas he is probably correct. But if he means that in the four years at college the undergraduate does not learn better himself and the world as well as the worlds which have preceded this phenomenon of bath tubs and Bolsheviki, he is certainly treading difficult ground...