Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reports from the Ruhr district have until recently been so fragmentary that we are in no position to judge of the case as a whole. From French sources we learn, however, that the German troop movements constituted a distinct violation of the Treaty, of such a grave nature as to warrant the use of extreme measures in opposition...
...trials held so far for acting aspirants for the Dramatic Club spring play, Benevente's "The Governor's Wife", two men, or women, are being selected for each part until the final trials, on the basis of their reading of the parts they have chosen. Each two actors will learn and practice their roles until next Monday, when the last trials will be held. After these trials, the successful candidates will have until the Monday after vacation. April 26, to learn their parts. Regular rehearsals are to commence immediately thereafter, under the leadership of Mr. J. W. D. Seymour...
...university is the laboratory of truth. It is an experimental station. He who would learn in this laboratory the eternal immutable laws of truth, must adopt as his criterion the scientific perspective of absolute, unbiased, suspended, critical judgment. His mind must not be befogged by the haze of prejudgments. He must be moderate and temperate. He must be tenacious, upholding old truths. He must be a radical as well as a conservative in the true meaning of these words. As a radical he must dig into the roots of the subject. As a conservative he must conserve and preserve...
Directly or indirectly the articles in the March number of the Harvard Graduate's Magazine touch on most of the disputed problems of the moment. As regards education itself we learn with growing hopefulness for the future that the prophesied revolution in the colleges shows no signs of materializing. Although the returning men recognize the enhanced value the war has placed on technical education, they acknowledge that the most important aim of education is, as President Lowell has said, to turn out men who by "their adaptability and resourcefulness," can adjust themselves to whatever conditions the future may bring forth...
...most of us it came as a distinct shock to learn, a few days ago, that the Allied powers intended to allow the Sultan to remain in Constantinople, with a large part of his former power still untouched; and this news was not rendered the more acceptable when printed side by side with accounts of fresh massacres and outrages committed by the Sultan's subjects...