Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incoherent notes, and goes away without a thought as to what has just been said. It is not altogether his fault; some lectures are extremely monotonous and uninteresting. In vain do professors encourage outside discussion among students, or announce voluntary consultation hours. The modern youth comes to college to learn--but not to study...
...matter of fact there is no three-men rule in amateur basketball, and in some professional rules, such as those which the interstate league is playing under, it is legal to have two, three, or five men playing the ball. Perhaps many people will be surprised to learn this, because many officials in describing the foul will raise two fingers, and the spectators take it to mean that there are two men on the ball...
Young men come to college not so much to learn facts as to learn how to get at fact and how to treat it. The man who patronizes the cramming school loses that sense of the technique of investigation which only experience can give. In reviewing the course itself, however, the tutorial schools perform a commendable service. All too few of the instructors at Harvard attempt formally to convey to the student a view of their subject as a whole. The course without its seminar is as incomplete as the book without an index...
Such is the monstrous fate which overhangs the hapless undergraduate. What a relief, therefore, to learn that the fuss is all due to a new efficiency system whereby the "goody" must give a reason if a room is not "made up"--and the easiest excuse is, of course, that the occupant rose too late. This is to protect the "goody" from being discharged for laziness. So the persecuted student may breathe freely once more and seek his downy coach without fear that his "morning after" snores will shake Olympus. The little white card which alone bears the testimony...
...purpose, several outside concerts are arranged for it during the spring. Stanley Noel Brown '24 of New York City has been appointed provisional leader of the club and will conduct the work until the regular leader is chosen. All men who report for the trials tomorrow, should if possible, learn some short sole and be ready to give it according to M. A. Shattuck 31, who will be in charge of the work of the hall choruses as well as the Glee Club...