Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tennis courts at Silver Bay may be used by vacationists and delegates alike, but six of these are reserved for members of the conference exclusively. In addition there are two baseball diamonds and a boathouse, adequately equipped with canoes and other small craft. There will be an opportunity to learn games which are adapted to use for boys clubs and general community service...
...rugby team is quite unlikely to lay aside his Dunhill and give up his mug of ale till a week or so before the Oxford game, if at all. If rugby developed into a game where the strictest of training was necessary, where the player had to learn signals, listen to long talks on how to play, and practice day after day without scrimmage, he would not consider it fun or sport in the true sense of the word. He would consider it a drudge, would give up the whole thing, and go out for some other sport. The track...
...object of the conference is to permit members of the University, especially Juniors, Seniors, and graduate students, to learn from Mr. Staub the opportunity which these colleges offer for teachers in elementary subjects. He will show not only that such an opportunity exists, but that the conditions are such that the positions should be inviting to American college graduates. There is ample opportunity for travel as well as for a first hand study of conditions in the Near East...
...opportunity to learn at first hand full details of the movements of the Washington Conference during the entire three months that it was in session will be offered to all University students this evening by two of the special advisers to the Conference, Professor G. G. Wilson of Harvard and Professor G. H. Blakeslee of Clark University, Worcester. The meeting, which is open to the general public as well as to University men, will be held in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock...
...proper spirit in the undergraduate. That is our one great drawback. Most of us come here partly because it is the thing to do, partly because we feel that by so doing we shall be better fitted for our future business life, and partly from a desire to learn a little something,--but not one in ten of us comes from the pure love of knowledge and the desire to so train himself as to extend that knowledge and beautify a world too conscious of its more unpleasant aspects. Develop such a spirit, and America would no longer suffer from...