Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means new, is always worthy of consideration. His central idea is one with which some of us certainly will agree: that the age in which we live is so intensely practical that few people have any thought to waste on true education. We are so busy learning how to be practical specialists that we utterly forget such minor acquisitions as intellectual power, mental development and "the art of living." Mr. Morrison implies another great truth--the only knowledge really worth anything is that which we acquire by our own efforts. That which is supplied to us gratis in tabloid form...
...expected that this experiment will enable men to learn early in the afternoon whether or not they will be able to play and will give everyone an equal chance to procure a court...
There is an increasing number of Harvard College graduates entering this School and many undergraduates have come to me to learn what the School is doing and how it can help them to solve their own problems. Such personal conferences are very welcome and either Mr. David, the Assistant Dean of the School, or I will be glad to make appointments with small groups or with individuals, Juniors or Seniors, who wish to know more about the transition to a business life...
...teach the routine of a particular industry or job. This must be done by the industry itself. Executive responsibility cannot be given to an untried man and a period of personal probation is therefore necessary for every man. The graduate of the Business School should be able to learn the routine of his job during this period of personal probation, and since his object is to get promoted out of routine work into a position of executive or administrative responsibility, we spend our time in the School giving him the breadth of training needed to qualify him for promotion...
...fitting that aid should be given to the disabled who are living, than that a shrine should be built for the dead. The United States is far behind England in her care for the wounded and disabled. There cannot be too much done to aid our wounded men to learn a vocation. If all the money cannot be used here, there are crying needs in Europe to help suffering peoples. If the American people could only see and feel the misery that exists in Europe as Europe sees it, there would be no thought of shrines till the living...