Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting, which will be somewhat upon the order of the "Old Grads' Summer School" held last July in preparation for the Harvard Endowment Fund Campaign, is planned in order to give the alumni an opportunity to learn at firsthand what Harvard College is doing today. The meeting will begin on Saturday morning, May 8, at 10 o'clock, in the historic Faculty Room of University Hall. President Lowell and officers and students of the College will describe in detail the policy and work of the Harvard of the present time. The graduates will have luncheon at one of the Freshman...
...such is actually the case with the great majority of people under our present industrial system. This is the day of the fool-proof machine. A man in Ford's factory can learn his job in two days. That is the length of professional training required. Compare this with the law school and medical school, which last three and four years and require a college degree before hand. Compare it with the training of an artist or a singer. There you have something of a measure of the comparative value of the expressive pursuits--what we call the professions...
...social welfare work, it attempts to bring the undergraduate into close contact with the problems of industrial life. The student who teaches a group of illiterate immigrants gains some idea of the trials and hardships undergone by others less fortunate than himself. The pupils, on the other hand, learn that the "aristocrats" from college are just as human as themselves...
Then too there is the other type of boy who is industrious, ambitious, conscientious and tries his hardest to learn, but simply has not the brains to go through with the task. He is really a pathetic figure. He is wasting valuable money and even more valuable time, but he is so serious and faithful about it that everybody hates to tell him that he ought to be working in a blacksmith shop or a factory. It is true that he often succeeds in obtaining a degree, but he would be just as well off without...
Harvard men from all parts of New England are to have their Graduates' Day at the University this year and are to be given an opportunity to learn at first hand about the life and work of the University of today, when the New England Federation of Harvard Clubs meets at Cambridge on Saturday, May 8, at the invitation of the University...