Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kindred to all of these squash has come not only to stay but to contribute very definitely to the enjoyment of life. Probably not every undergraduate can become state champion, but those who learn squash while the facilities and time are offered can look forward to an existence not entirely grey. For they will have at their command a form of physical relaxation somewhat more entertaining than the Swedish drill, Indian clubs, and medicine balls of their ancestors...
...They will stay just the same," he admitted, not gloomily. "But the young men will learn--all the young...
...University will learn with pleasure that the Reverend Percy Stickney Grant has accepted an invitation from the Christian Association to speak here on the problems of modern religion. As a defender of liberal interpretation of the Bible and of a livable, modern religion. Dr. Grant has won the admiration of many, as well as the deep-rooted antagonism of others; but nowhere should he find a warmer reception than at Harvard...
...chump could do that. On the seven o'clock bell, I use the old English stroke that has been used here since the college was founded. It took me three months of practice with the bell padded with rags to learn that stroke. First I ring it a few times to get it swinging. Then when it reaches the point where it is almost upside down but doesn't quite go over, I hold it there for ten seconds. I let it ring three times, and then hold on the other side for ten seconds, keeping this up for five...
...nations that have come into being during the past war period are showing the good sense in profiting by such a policy of taking from other well-governed nations what is desirable for, their own specific purpose, so should the Institutions of Religion that mankind has evolved or built learn to give and take. In order to take the best principles of the U. S. Constitution or the Declaration of Independance, no individual is required to give up his own nationality nor is any nation adopting certain provisions thereof declared a part of the U. S.; but it is everybody...