Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through a proper understanding and interpretation of history at a time when his ideas are still unset a man can learn to appreciate the point of view of the other fellow and get a better perspective on life. Such a perspective is fundamental to the liberty and freedom for which America has always stood. Tolerance and a breadth of view are the chief values to be gained from a college education, and nowhere as in our universities is it possible so easily to learn these values. If Columbia is really able to inculcate in here students a clearer perspective...
...this column succeeds in keeping before the eyes of undergraduates important contributions to modern literature, and relieves them of some of the bother connected with plowing through columns of daily papers in order to learn the facts regarding current publications, the editors will feel it is accomplishing the purpose for which it has been instituted...
...only to historians but to all men who are interested in public and international affairs. From these documents it will be possible accurately to trace the development of that web of secret diplomacy which lay behind the activity of the Central Powers in precipitating the world war. We learn, for example, that Austria had been granted the right by Germany and Russia to annex Bosnia and Herzogovina as early as 1881, and this shows us why Russia was obliged to withdraw her protest against the seizure o these territories in 1908 We see how Germany and Austria were able...
...equal to their own as "Bolshevists," "traitors," and the like; but the problems which they profess so high-handedly to discuss and solve are not at all as simple as these youths would have us believe. The lads are doubtless well-meaning, but let us hope that they will learn that temperance, even when dealing with the most difficult problems, is a good thing. It comes with experience...
...live today in an era of political unrest and consequently political intolerance. The people of the Middle Ages lived in an epoch of religious intolerance. We now learn that they were wrong; let us take care lest posterity judge of us as we judge of the Age of Darkness. Then some humans were mentally favored beyond their contemporaries, and preached ideas realized only much later; whatever of folly was proposed by them lost its bearing and fell away, but whatever of good was championed by them has survived and has pushed man on in his development. If these Reds have...