Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learn with pleasure how quickly the Freshmen have become saturated with the spirit of things as they are. Although we gave up the idea of a complete vote in the upperclasses some time ago, we suspected that one term would not suffice to instill in the Freshmen a hearty contempt for polls and elections. But apparently our fears were groundless; since the class of 1925, faithfully following the example of its elders, has cast 449 ballots out of the 522 required for the justly famous sixty per cent...
Objections to such differentiation was voiced by several students, whereupon digious ignorance of the average alumnus and overseer as regards educational progress at Harvard, and said that he and other alumni were present to learn all they could from student opinion...
...have greeted this drastic action. But some of the objectors take issue with Oxford on broader grounds the "Spectator". for instance, reminds its readers that true education consists in more than what President Lowell calls the process of being a sponge and a syringe. "The person who wants to learn, and who is, therefore, worth teaching," says the "Spectator", "should have "Why?' 'How? and 'What is the use of?' always on his lips." Freedom of speech for the Faculty is indispensable for original thinking and sound scholarship; it logically implies freedom of speech and liberty of the press...
...spirit of service, shown in the work for foreign students, is also exemplified in the social service activities carries n in our own immediate community. It has been said that Brooks House serves as a clearing house where generous minded young men in the University may learn how to make their generosity count in the most efficient way,--a kind of school for training in the art of applied kindness. The actual social service work is done mostly in the settlement houses of Boston and Cambridge, where so far this year over 250 men have been teaching and leading boys...
...twenty dinners were distributed this year at Thanksgiving, and at Christmas shoes and stockings were given to twenty-five poor boys. All of these cases were investigated by the Cambridge Welfare Union, but the actual distribution was done by the students themselves. In this way, they were able to learn something of real conditions...