Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these times of quantitative production and accomplishment "en masse", it is generally supposed that if a man works hard enough he will eventually reach the top--either in material or non-material gain. Consequently it is somewhat surprising to learn that the creator of "Nick Carter", having penned forty million words in his lifetime, died practically penniless,--a suicide. America, the builder of physical colossi, might have been expected to reward such industry, if only on the basis of bulk alone; and certainly "Nick" achieved a popularity in his day. But apparently literature and the material world are still things...
Apparently Europe must learn for herself that the only way out of the present situation lies in open dealing and mutual confidence. Until then economic stability and prosperity are practically impossible. Meanwhile, the lesson seems to be a hard one, and the temptation still great to make use of the familiar phrase. "After...
...college publications that the space you have thus given to the Philippine problem has undoubtedly presented the case to hundreds of Harvard men who are continually misled by the prejudiced articles in other papers. Certainly it must have interested the many who have been more than surprised to learn that there are Universities in Manila, and that the archipelago is not entirely "made up of forests and jungles" as a Junior once frankly put his conception of those islands...
...this broad and indispensable purpose in view that the themes and discussions touch upon all subjects--religion and philosophy, science and sociology, fine and useful arts, literature and the analysis and niceties of language, history and politics;--not so much to acquire concrete knowledge of these great branches of learning as to see them in their places in the picture of man's relation to them and their relations to each other; not to get knowledge direct, but to learn if may be how to go about to get it, and to make...
...writer goes on to ask. How do some men obtain the true value of a college education--while others miss it altogether? The answer is four-fold. To gain the best a man should make friends, not casual acquaintances, but three or four close, lasting friends. He should learn thoroughly some one subject for its own sake wholly, apart from any material profit. Any subject will do--biology, history, drama--but let him be interested in it and take it out of college with him when he leaves. Those are the most important, but in conjunction with them should...