Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirit is the same in New York as it is in Boston, Chicago, or San Francisco. What happened yesterday at the Polo Grounds has had its parallel in occasional demonstrations in the Harvard Stadium against the home team. If manners make the man, our crowds have still much to learn. In the last analysis the level of sportsmanship depends as much upon the temper and ideals of the sporting public as it does upon the standards of the players themselves, whether professionals or amateurs. What wonder that the pages of professional baseball are sometimes marred by scandals, when the crowds...
...steadily growing cloud is rising from the university horizon, a cloud of literature, circulars and pamphlets pouring from the university extensions and upstart correspondence schools of what-not, and threatening to shadow the whole sky. The farmhand can learn to play the piccolo in ten lessons, the mayor can learn public accounting by mail. An education dropped through a slit in the door! The universities are hardly of any use now. A few years and they will be cut off from the light altogether...
...Freshmen who expect to come out in the spring are urged to be on hand this fall, so they may learn the rudiments of the game...
...fall season will last probably four or five weeks and will end in a game with the Boston Lacrosse Club. All Freshmen who expect to play this spring have been urged to come out this fall to learn the rudiments of the game...
...these sections may choose some exercise such as tennis, handball, rowing (in singles), or the gymnasium class. For those who cannot swim, opportunity is offered to learn: but swimming cannot be chosen as an exercise by any who are able to swim...