Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should surprise no one to learn from Washington press dispatches that the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist Episcopal church is officially aghast at the wholesale introduction of taxi drivers' vocabulary into the theatre. Although the board of temperance, etc. as given above, quotes no examples to lend point to its protests, one can easily imagine the identity of the plays which have wrung its collective heart; particularly since Mayor Curley has recently taken it upon himself to disinfect the Boston production of "What Price Glory." The Methodist organization further makes a prediction which is gloomy...
...Kiel, taking his doctor's degree last year. It was during his studies there, in the field of social economics, that he first conceived the idea of pursuing his studies in the United States. "From the books that I read by American scholars, I perceived that I could learn much from these men. I chose Harvard because there I thought I could best get what I wanted...
...courses in the English Department were founded on a theory that is at least debatable. A comparison of your writer's views on English 41 and Comparative Literature 6 is illuminating. The latter receives a very thorough "roasting" while Mr. Perry's course evokes nothing but praise. This we learn is because English 4d succeeds in "making delight in literature contagious." Undoubtedly it does, for when a man is concentrating in literature (as, I think, Dr. Magoun has a right to believe that most of his students are), has not the instructor the right to assume that those who attend...
...after another, 40 courses are treated by those who have sat in them. You learn that it is possible to take it easy in Music 3 without being bored; that Philosophy A is a bewilderment to those not philosophic by nature; that Government 1 is profitable, unless it is spoiled by an incompetent assistant. Of certain professors there is the highest praise, while others are revealed as belonging to the class that cannot stimulate the average undergraduate...
...learn the theory of photography and to put it into practice is the lot of the photographic candidates. Assigned to take pictures of people and activities with cameras furnished by the department, they are then taught to develop, print, and enlarge them. Besides gaining a knowledge of photography, a pleasant pastime in itself, the candidates are, through their work, kept in touch with all the phases of life in the University...