Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When will the public learn that a college is merely a vertical section of society? The proportion between the classes is not strictly the same as in the outside, world, to be sure, but all classes are there. You have your millionaires' sons, your week-enders, those who merely make the campus a G. H. Q. for their social activities; but you also have sons of butchers and bakers and candlestick makers who either drain the paternal pocket-book dry or else put in all their spare time doing odd jobs in order to get the wherewithal...
...well known, the Oxford Union, models its procedure after the House of Commons. Our debaters do not model themselves after the House of Representatives that would be too deadly but after the best law courts. It is probable that debaters of each country could learn something from the other. But each system of debate is the natural outgrowth of its own college environment. New York Evening Post
Nothing can be done now in the way of new songs, but some of the old one might be revived, as "Veritas" was last year. Were we to suggest one, it would be "Score"--dated 1910. The words are good, music better; it is easy to learn. And it will cheer the hearts of more than one graduate of the last twenty years...
Since 1883, Mr. Leavitt has been all but a college boy himself, joking, sympathizing and advising us, who are here today. He knew "the ropes" and he helped us to learn them too. When we were wrong he told us; when we were right he never failed to commend us, Despondent and discouraged have I entered his store; cheerful and wiser have I left. He knew us all; I think he loved us all. For years has he "rooted" for our teams only too willing to back them. Just the other day he said...
...service for someone every day" was the first and most important of three maxims emphasized by W. R. Trumbull '13 in his talk to Freshmen in Smith Halls Common Room last night. The other two were "Learn something and see something beautiful every...