Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...along the line, and unceasing from the cradle to the grave, will be to train Thinkers who Do; Doers who Think. The two kinds of activity cannot be separated without disaster. The Thinker who knows nothing of Doing is no guide for anyone; the Doer who has not learned to Think is no safer. The fact is that only through Doing can one learn rightly to Think. Through definite activities, useful in their own right and evidently respectable because they are useful, as well as through the written records of doing and thinking in the past, and talking and listening...
...past, professional football ha thrilled the sporting public about as deeply as the national chess tournament. It is a herald of a new era, therefore, to learn that the New York Football Giants, a professional team, have found it necessary to hire a cheer leader and band for their home games. The public, of course, is accustomed to taking its football with a good deal of seltzer in the shape of organized noise, and if sport enthusiasts are to be enticed into transferring their favor from college to professional games, nothing should be spared to make them feel at home...
...surprise to learn that by the agreement of last Spring athletes were permitted to play baseball at Summer hotels where they were employed, while camp counselors might coach their charges without violating the eligibility rules. More advanced ground is taken theoretically in the matter of amateur standing in this report. It doubts whether a student earning his way through college should be forbidden to accept "a job in the Summer, just because it involves participation in a sport." The argument is made that there is little or no difference in the case of the man who "gets...
...humanity. Of him, more perhaps than of any other man, it may be said that nothing human was foreign to him. . . . He liked to associate with persons of every class and kind, brain workers and hand workers, for they all were human, and from all he could learn . . . . A natural total depravity of the human heart was to him inconceivable...
...omission of "Mr." where the Negro is concerned is a custom as old as the Negro problem itself - so why affront we Southerners by sticking it under our noses? You are never too old to learn, so why not stand corrected...