Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graduate School of Landscape Architecture recently in order to get in touch with the work of the School. Landscape Architecture was given further recognition as an independent profession about a year ago when the committee was first organized. The recent visit was made in an effort to learn the needs of the School and to advise as to its instruction in Landscape Architecture and City Planning. Among others the committee includes Mr. M. P. Lewis, formerly Chief Engineer of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, New York City, and President of the American City Planning Institute; Mr. C. G. Fall...
Since the undergraduate is addicted to both types of newspaper--worthless and worth-while--it is doubly important that he should learn to read the press intelligently. He must, furthermore, learn to do this for himself, since we have not at present a course such as Mr. Allen has suggested. Only when, through knowledge gained from reliable sources, we really understand how to picture "the world about us--can we play our part in it intelligently and independently," says Mr. Allen. In the process we shall force the newspapers to change their opinion as to "what the public wants...
...considerable part of the men who did not go to these Union meetings were asked why they had not done so they would reply that in their opinion such discussions were of little practical value; they would point out that they could learn a great deal more about the Conference by study and reading and by informal discussion with their friends than by attending any mass meeting, In spite of the conviction that such meetings are decidedly worth while, we cannot criticise those who hold the contrary opinion, for it is a matter to be settled entirely by the individual...
...contention of the author, who is a member of one of the numerous committees appointed by the Prime Minister to consider England's educational problem, is that the few have been favored to the disadvantage of the many, and that all students should be taught English and learn to know the literature of the country; above all education should be broadened to bring into close contact with actual life, whereas the New World desires to polish off her instruction, the Old World must revamp hers...
...universities, at an all-round development, physical and social as well as intellectual, and to provide means of physical and social well-being far in advance of anything we have yet attained"--such statements should cheer considerably those who bewail our method in general. We have much to learn, but perhaps our foundations are firmer than many believe. It is pleasant, indeed, to think that while we can polish off our education by borrowing from England, we can give her much in return...