Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many institutions in the country, notably Columbia and the large state universities in the middle we, have established as one of their graduate schools as one of their graduate schools a course of training in journalism. Here men learn what instructors in an art, still in its period of elementary development, can toach--proper business and news gathering methods, administration and organization, editorial composition, and kindered subjects. Harvard has not followed suit, probably because such training is still primitive and of doubtful value. At the same time, a considerable number of the men, having been graduated from the University...
...suggests that the speaker had a twinkle in his inward eye when he summoned Youth to labor for leadership. He knew that intelligent, earnest effort is the lesson which Youth must learn, and he understood that the way to encourage it was to offer attractive rewards in the form of freedom and progress. What he says about a rebellion of Youth we must take with a grain of salt. He himself hardly wants Age to be thrown in the discard; what he does want, artfully, is for Youth to want it so; because he knows that only through the discontent...
...have the Mayor of New York come out publicly, as he did yesterday morning, in one of his characteristic, straight-from-the-shoulder talks to the people;--advocating Mr. Hearst for Governor. Mr. Hylan was not reserved in his praise, and no doubt Mr. Hearst's ears burned to learn "that if the people want to govern the state themselves a man should be nominated for Governor,--regardless of his being Democrat or Republican,--who stands for the principles of the people, for which Mr. Hearst has stood for many years...
...Tuesday morning the Overseers will visit the headquarters of the University Press at Randall Hall in order to learn about its operation. A luncheon at the Harvard Club of Boston, at the invitation of the Board of Governors of the club, will bring the meeting...
...College Senior" writing in the New York "Evening Post" concerning the "unwilling and the eager student" points out, and properly, that the man who is really eager to learn may, often is, discouraged by the work in the course which is planned for the man with the schoolboy attitude. "This method," he says, "of treating both sections as though they were unwilling has the great disadvantage of failing to educate either." In this statement there is a large measure of truth, although some of the "eager" probably surmount the difficulty; yet if they do, it is because they started college...