Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular boxing classes began in November and the participants in them have already progressed far enough to make it difficult for a novice to start in them on an equal basis. In order to provide an opportunity for more new men to learn the rudiments of the fistic art, the athletic authorities have organized the post-vacation class...
They were annoyed to learn that the commission had been granted to one Natalie Hammond, young daughter of John Hays Hammond, famed engineer, plutocrat. Natalie Hammond has studied art for one or two years; has shown a watercolor painting at the London Royal Academy; has travelled largely in Eastern countries...
...given, in the ballad of Sir Brazen-pants, a story with a moral; the classical scholar cannot fall to derive satisfaction from the Christmas Version of "Times Danaos": while all must be stimulated by an entirely new and hither to unpublished drawing of the Widener Library. Prospective philanthropists may learn much from a well-escented study in benevolence...
...science courses and other exceptional appointments such as conferences with tutors, they will be unrestrained. Behind this experiment lies the theory that U. S. education is too tightly hemmed in with supervision. Education is obtained by force feeding; not sought because minds are hungry. Harvard believes a man will learn more by seeking learning; than by sitting on a bench and having learning thrust upon him; believes that the desire to know is stronger than the fear of ignorance. Said Dean A. C. Hanford: "Present educational methods are comparatively satisfactory, but they also lack much of the force which springs...
Soon they learn that the other guests have been taken ashore; they are bound for parts unknown on the gorgeous Vanguard...