Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Obregon, a soldier, a revolutionist, but also a clever international politician, realizing that the lack of great leaders in his country was due to a considerable extent to the poor intellectual standards of the people as a whole, has determined to learn from these much despised American all that he can. By a scheme of cooperative scholarships, established jointly by variout state universities in the west and the Mexican government, the training in the United States of a goodly number of Mexican young men each year has been assured...
...louder this year, and everybody ought to do some real yelling. Everywhere you go, you hear how poor Harvard's cheering is, no matter what the sport. And, as some one said to me the other day, I think that "it is about time that Harvard began to learn how to cheer." Before important games such as the Holy Cross game Wednesday, I think we ought, if possible, to have a band march through the yard and down to the field. But anyhow let's have some cheering...
...corporation or for a small one? How is he to get a job? What jobs are good jobs? How pick his industry? He needs to study himself as a problem with relation to his business and social surroundings. He should have sufficient field work not to learn the detailed routine of special industries but to get a clear conception of the surroundings in which his business problems will arise, and to make him feel at home in a business environment...
...such a clear and non-technical manner that even the laymen in his audience needed no economic reference book as an aid to understanding. Mr. Clay was introduced by professor Zechariah Chafe LL.B. '13, who spoke of the amount which the United States has always been able to learn from England and of the progressiveness of that country...
Circumstances, radical and political, have led to a distinctive method of study, recitation and lecture. The population of Aintab are Turkish-speaking. The text-books to be used are American. Students are obliged to learn English and French as well as Turkish and Armenian or Arabic, but, with the exception of language lessons, practically all the class room work is conducted in the vernacular. The texts are standard books in American Colleges, like Kimball in Physics, Alex, Smith in Chemistry, Weber in History of Philosophy, Gide in Political Economy, but recitation, discussion and lectures are in the vernacular...