Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subconscious mind," he said, "is far greater than the will as a guiding force in human life. If we can learn to control it, we can control and cure many of the illnesses which have a mental element in them. The victory which mind is capable of gaining over matter can obviously be put to the best use when mind, conscious and unconscious, is under our control. Auto-suggestion is nothing more than a method of obtaining this control, by hypnotizing the mind, so that it will act in the way we wish. This, I have found, can be accomplished...
Introducing his speech with the statement that he had come here to learn. Mr. Kerr said that in the course of his learning he had concluded that America was no longer the land of the pioneer. The people of the United States are not seeking land for settlement, nor are they seeking an increase in population through the channel of immigration. America is today approaching the same economic stage which England reached in 1840, when her manufactures surpassed her agricultural interests. Foreign trade will increasingly become the great interest of America...
...teaching positions open for the year 1923-1924 at Robert College at Constantinople and the American University at Beirut, Syria. This is the largest list of appointments for these two colleges to be made in recent years. Men graduating next spring, and desiring to fill these positions may learn particulars and sign up for them on February 20, when Mr. A. W. Staub, Executive Secretary of the two universities, will be at Phillips Brooks House for conferences...
...even after this we did not learn our lesson. In 1908-09 President Roosevelt, because of certain situations abroad, sent an American fleet around the world. Did American auxiliary colliers and supply ships go along with the American fighting ships? No. The United States Government hired merchant ships and colliers from foreign lines to do this work. Some of these ships were manned by Chinese. Then came the World War and this, is so recent that everybody knows of the money that had to be spent to build ships to carry our troops and supplies across the Atlantic...
...many outbursts of journalistic feeling on "Religion at Harvard" have caused a widespread opinion that sober, steady Harvard is departing from the good old ways of its founders into fields of doubt and irreverence. These misinformed conservatives will learn with pleasure that Harvard has not only not abolished compulsory prayers, but has remodeled the old method of conducting them so that now they are more impressive than ever. The new change inaugurated yesterday marks a revolution. The teachings of the Quakers have received support. Hereafter no one will be required to officiate, but each student will quietly meditate, and wait...