Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another page of this issue are very welcome. With the well-founded general criticism of the Modern Language divisionals last spring and the report of the Scholarship Committee of the Student Council the "situation seems now to call for attention", as Professor Howard says. And it is gratifying to learn that it ought soon to be "brought for discussion...
...altho the Office chooses to say nothing on the subject, the city of Cambridge--under whose jurisdiction all students come, for the time, at least--has sundry and various laws upon such subjects as parking and speeding. And so, for all automobile owners, it is just as important to learn the city laws relating to parking--and, of course, to all more serious offences--as it is for all students to learn the college rules. If for no other reason, these outside rules should be obeyed so that all existing privileges may be kept, and so that there...
...Mediaeval youth to walk across whole nations with his possessions on his back in order to hear lectures by the savants of that time. But if modern youths found themselves in the same case, that of having no books, newspapers or magazines, they would be quite as eager to learn of the world and other people and themselves, however far they had to travel. Not until one begins to imagine the horrible possibility of being marooned on a desert island does one realize the debt owed to Gutenberg and Alden and their successors. Immediately one rushes to the book-case...
...rope jumping is an innovation this year added to the regular morning calisthenics which are now a part of the training. The ropes are passed out at the end of the setting up exercises and even the 230-pound guards are compelled to learn to hop and skip rope again as a muscle loosener...
With the American student Professor Zimmern is delighted. The college boy is O. K., but the college has not yet learned how to play ball with him. And if the college does not soon learn, it will continue to be " for the student a finishing school, for the administration a business establishment, for the ordinary teacher a routine, for the investigator a means for supporting his researches, and for American life, as a whole, in relation to the real forces of the age, a tranquil and almost stagnant backwater...