Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...started in then to learn something about him, and I've been learning ever since. In 1909 I came over to the States and went down south to go over the battlefields of the war. I hired a pony and a mule and went through the Wilderness, by Petersburg, up the Rappahanock, in fact I went over every inch of ground where the fighting occurred. I stayed often at farmhouses, for the hotels, what few there were, were rather uncomfortable. And when the trip was over I came back to Washington, sold my pony and mule, and made...
...stage and its patrons. It might have time to join with Harvard in an endeavor to promote the better things. With such an arrangement students, instead of being confined to the amateur classrooms of "English 47," would have large contacts with the world of drama. They would learn not only from scholars but from experience. Miss Helbrun for astute showmanship, Mr. Moeller for dramaturgy and stage direction. Mr. Simonson for scenery. Mr. Wertheim for economics, Miss Westley for histrionism, Mr. Reicher for production and Mr. Munsell for business management. Judging from results this group, if it were to take...
George Bellows never studied in Europe. He was born in Ohio, studied art in Manhattan under Robert Henri. That artist once said of him: "I can't teach this boy anything; he knows by instinct all that it has taken me years to learn...
...highly gratifying to learn that as these structural changes have been taking place the scholarship of the men who are studying under the new arrangements has steadily improved. If defense were necessary, there would be no need of further argument. There remains, however, one problem that is as yet unsolved. The transition from school to college was ever difficult, but with the tutorial system's requirement of greater maturity it becomes doubly so. The ultimate triumphant success of the system is inseparably bound up with this problem. President Lowell keenly appreciates the situation, but his report suggests no satisfactory remedy...
...ought to be a great comfort to every college student whose life-work is still a mystery to him to learn that success is a simple matter of training. If one would be a Shakespeare, a Bismarck, or a Newton, let him forget the "bete noire" of special gifts, of adverse talents and misapplied genius, and go through the necessary ritual of preparation. That is all there is to it--at least, according to Professor John B. Watson, formerly professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University...