Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After this initial outlay, the usual changes in the schedule from year to year will require the addition of only three or four songs per annum, which the student body can readily learn to sings with all the versatility which Mr. King now finds missing...
...classics and for the study of modern literature and civilization." The success of these meetings and the general interest which has been demonstrated towards them by those concentrating in that field has been but one more token of the increasing intimacy between students and their instructors, between those who learn and those whose business it is to teach. Compulsory for men taking certain introductory courses in Latin and Greek, these conferences have resulted not only in broadening the student's knowledge but also in maintaining a vital and healthy enthusiasm for his work...
...these meetings which grouped together bear the name of "Introduction To Ancient Civilization" is well expressed in the syllabus issued by the Department: "it (the plan) is designed to form an organic whole, and to stimulate students not merely to acquire information but also to think about what they learn, and to see the relation between modern and ancient civilization...
...carefree young men concerned primarily with extra-curricular activities and the incidental culture which may be acquired thereby, and gives it his blessing. Since he believes the incoming tides of students lack this incidental culture in the background of their homes and schools, it is better for them to learn it at college than to bother themselves with ,daf ole davil Study...
...worked hard to learn the rudiments of this strange job, how to cover felons with guns, when to vise blackjacks, where to hit. He influenced, the city to enlarge the police force, insisted that new men be carefully taught the rudiments he had learned himself. Then he had a falling out. Rumors were that Mr. McLaughlin could not understand why the law against gambling dens was not valid in all parts of the city. Clarence H. Mackay offered him a position in the Postal Telegraph & Cable Companies as executive vice president. This, too, was a strange job for a banker...