Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...candidates may benefit from those of more experience, Coach Bingham has decided to make the squads small, about six men to each division, comprising both new men and veterans. These squads will compete from time to time among themselves, and the inexperienced candidates will have an added opportunity to learn the fundamentals of running ability from their veteran teammates...
Providing they do not interfere with the actual work of building, the coaches are very anxious to have oarsmen visit the Nowell Workshop, where the boat is being made, in order to learn something of the construction of a shell...
...compulsory huddling of students at too early hours was abolished. It can't be destroyed, it seems. Possibly, if it stands 100 or 200 years longer, it may acquire architectural merit; may come to be recognized as "uaint" or "venerable." The taste of generations differs; and our descendants may learn to adore what we should have liked to burn...
...might have faced the season with a gloomy outlook. Added to this we had behind us a record of defeats dating back to 1916, for during the interim between 1916 and 1921 not a single race had been won by any Harvard Cross-Country Team. Last spring, however, we learned that the only way we were to achieve success ultimately, was by progress. We saw what progress did for the Track Team, and while we hoped that the Cross-Country progress would result in a victory over Yale, we were determined that we should watch our progress from week...
...feel about the military academy, as things stand now, that nobody outside of West point really knows West Point-except probably from newspaper propaganda. They don't know the best things about the academy and never can. They can learn some of them though by getting under the roof of it. I feel that if professors under this contemplated plan go to West Point to instruct cadets they would find an entirely different atmosphere undoubtedly from what they are usually accustomed to and would come away saying wonderful things of West Point, speaking highly of some of its methods...