Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...procedure has been too much that of attempting to give the students the results of work done by their teachers. As against this our teaching must be based upon work done by the student himself. We must attempt to develop in him intellectual independence and initiative. . . He must learn to think and to know what to think about. To this end we would substitute for lectures and instruction a scheme based upon reading, conference and discussion. . . . . We would then supplement the student's own work by conference with teachers who would suggest, question, criticize, and lead by their own ways...
...titles of some of the other songs suggest the wide scope of the play. A few of these are "There are Lots of Things You Never Learn in College," "Bed o' Roses" and "We Modern Girls...
...about the moving picture financier which never fails to irritate me. I have tried to find a reason for this badge of the banker, but have failed. So this morning at 9 o'clock, any one who so desires may see me enter the portal of Harvard 1 to learn whether the answer to my question can be found in Professor Gray's lecture in Economics 2 on Money and Banking in the United States...
...work overseas. "Weather in Peace," "The Structure of the Atmosphere," "Clouds, Fogs and Water Vapor," "Lightning," and "Droughts, Floods and Forecasts," are the subjects of the other five essays. There is thus a considerable variety of subjects, and each chapter contains many items of popular interest. For example, we learn something about "frost fighting" in California; the value of expert testimony on the part of the meteorologist in law-suits; the importance of weather forecasts in railroading and in industry; the real facts in connection with Franklin's famous kite experiments, simple rules of protection from lighting. The essential facts...
...Chief among these changes is the establishment of a committee of the most skillful of the advisor's, who will see personally and at length each year, within a few days of the opening of the School, each entering student in order to learn at once his personality, interests, training, and capacities, and assign him to an advisor likely to be especially desirable for him. This committee will also gather information, especially useful to the advisors, will develop further methods of training them will arrange for confer excess of the whole group of the advisors from time to time...