Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aside from this elevation of the standard, it was learned last night from members of the English Department, no further changes have been made, and the system remains basically and in spirit exactly as it was when first adopted.
The new system, introduced by Professor Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, was designed to give a greater measure of freedom to the upper third of a class, a portion which, it was found, stood in rather small need of the meticulously fundamental work afforded by English...
Skjellerup's comet, originally expected to become visible Monday night and which has not yet appeared here, will not appear until the night before Christmas or on Christmas morning. It was learned at a late hour last night from the Harvard College Observatory. Owing to the fact that the sky...
She had found successes before: when she published her first novel, Dancers in the Dark (in 1922); when she sang in Italy last winter. In the Washington National Opera Festival, singing Mignon, she was only making her U. S. debut. When on two later evenings in the same week she...
Skjellerup's comet, due to appear on the western horizon this evening, may have been sighted just after sunset yesterday from the Harvard Observatory, it was learned at a late hour last night from Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory.