Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neighbors. If, now the rivalry is removed, the surviving publications can remember that the need for progress and improvement still persists, if the best of the Magazine's contributors can be persuaded to turn their work into tamer but no less hopeful pages, if the Advocate and Lampoon can learn from the virtues as well as the errors of their short-lived competitor, surely its death will not have been in vain...
American sportsmen, and we hope the American public as well, will rejoice to learn that the American Olympic team will sail for Antwerp in July with the official backing of the American Government. At a series of conferences held on Thursday in Washington, between the Olympic committee and high officials of the Government, American participation in the Olympic games received the formal endorsement of the Administration, and several high officials, including Secretaries Daniels and Baker, accepted honorary membership on the committee. It is eminently fitting that the Government should give such endorsement to the Olympic program. The two hundred...
...common idea of colleges as "hot-beds of Bolshevism" indicates a popular failure to understand the most important function of a university. Above all, the undergraduate must learn to apply himself to his work and to choose between the various ideas and theories which are presented to him in the classroom and outside. It is all very well to protect the preparatory school youth from pernicious doctrines, but if the college student is to be guarded from the danger of standing on his own feet, it is hard to see how he is ever to learn to think for himself...
...justify its continuance in 1920-21, when the mistakes of its first year can be righted. In an athletic system which embraces some six hundred undergraduates there are bound to be a few laggards and malcontents; there are bound to be times when the individual student will have to learn to play his own game of squash without an instructor on hand to teach him and see that he does not loaf...
...liable to accept its contrary at a later date. The only method on which reliance can safely be placed is that of training the student in the first-hand investigation of facts; in the power of seeing which facts are significant; and in the drawing of valid inferences. To learn to think straight is the chief aim of a college education...