Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON has been entirely without any definite statistics as to the popular approval of the plan. Certain things--the Vagabond among them--must be thrust upon the public in the belief that the contribution is welcome or at least not unworthy of consumption. Therefore it is gratifying to learn the attitude of other colleges and universities, since thus is the Vagabond furnished with the sole concrete justification of his existence. If others offer him commendations he is partially assured that as a prophet he is not entirely without honor in his own country...
...people try for the CRIMSON anyway? And having tried, why do they keep on trying once they learn the difficulties and pitfalls that await them? They try, in the first place, for any number of reasons. They may be brought out by a hangover of the preparatory school notion of being a Big Man around College. They may find that curricular work does not demand enough of their time to keep them busy. They may be bored. They may just wander in because they have found the habit of wandering. But once he has started, one of two things happens...
...practices until, precisely as in the case of our banking structure, we may be able to establish fairly definite and generally accepted standards for distinguishing the sound from the unsound, the real from the specious? When installment selling comes to be measured by these criteria, we may expect to learn that the innocuous and the salutary must not be confounded with the inappropriate and the regrettable, and that, in its ultimate and refined forms, installment credit will be recognized as constituting a significant and valuable contribution to the modern economy...
...golden ruler through the chalk notes . . . bells ringing for recess . . . the musty smell of a class room after lunch with bits of greasy sandwich wrappings in the aisles . . . more bells and the shuffle of feet going downstairs . . . two ratty brats squirming at their desks, writing out "I must learn to be polite and not to pass notes" . . . through the hot passages where cleaning women stir the dust into corners . . . . the sudden fresh darkness outside...
...keys. As he squeezed, there were sweets sounds; as he stretched it, it became apparent to some of his listeners that he was playing "turkey in the straw." There was a hush in the parlor until "Alf" got through. Then there was jabber of questions: "How did you learn?" . . . . Well I never! . . . Your touch is beautiful, Alf. . . . .Is it hard to play for a beginner, or was it just instinctive with you? . . . Alf, you never told us that you were musically inclined! . . . " To these questions, "Alf" answered not a word. he brushed a long, curly lock of his hair from...