Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discussing the demise of Memorial Hall in his recent report President Lowell remarked of the present college generation: "There are, however, signs that they are becoming weary of eating around. In time they will learn that the table is a natural place for social intercourse among civilized people, and they will again appreciate the value of club tables in forming enduring friendships which enrich the value of college and its memories. When they do so, the University will be able to supply a place for them...
...half-breeds who will apply will try to show their attainments by talking English or French or German, languages they picked up from former masters. They will cross themselves wildly, swear they are criollos (creoles), but they will be mestizos, sambos, and even mulattoes, distinctions the Creightons will soon learn. These servitors, and people even more wretched, such as the native Indians, live in the southeast section of the city, down towards Lake Texcoco, in huddles of squalid cabins and terraces. Their mortality is terrible in spite of the high altitude (7,415 ft. above sea level) and the fine...
...treats facts as dry bones is tolerated by his classes with the same coldness as he himself radiates. Such a professor seems to have forgotten that all knowledge--science, philosophy, history, literature, religion--all had their origin in the problems of human life. Such a professor needs to learn that his facts become vital, and fraught with meaning and importance, only when they are thrown into relief against these problems...
...beginning to see that the best thing you can do as the result of this conference is to utilize as you have not and do not utilize, your opportunities to learn in your colleges and schools; to learn how to think. You don't know how." Thus Dr. Albert Parker Fitch, educator and theologian, to several hundred young university men and women who assembled in Evanston, Ill., last week for an Interdenominational Student Conference. Dr. Fitch had been listening to a long abstract wrangle over the definition of "the Church" by undergraduate debaters...
...loyal friend, a gracious enemy. In his presence conversation is rarely trivial and never low. He is not all things to all men; he is the same thing to all men, a gentleman and a scholar. If a Greek piano-tuner visited his house professionally, Mr. Baker would learn all about the insides of a piano and the piano-tuner would hear about Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides...