Word: learning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...success of the H. H. Graduate entertainment at Salem has resulted in many pressing invitations, both personal and through the Salem press, for a second visit. It is probable, we learn, that the graduates will accept...
...though given by men who have no superiors in their line in this country, the numbers dwindled down to a sturdy few, who were willing to brave rain, storm, bad ventilation, and the attractions offered by the "Athens of America," and were, as far as I can learn, never sorry for it. In fact, I doubt if ever any man could be sorry that he put himself to any inconvenience for the sake of hearing Cervantes translated and commented on by a James Russell Lowell...
...knowledge of art is required of candidates for admission, as the Glee Club requires of its members ability to sing. Members of the Art Club no more pretend to be connoisseurs than the speakers in the Institute pretend to be great debaters. In the Art Club men may learn something of art, and in the Institute they may get some little practice in speaking; but as far as I am aware, neither of these societies pretends to anything more, and, as long as they make no such pretence, they do not, in my opinion, lay themselves open to the charge...
...ultimate government was in the hands of an elective body, holding their places for life. This body contained from twenty to thirty members. We are in the dark as to its powers. How it was elected we do not know, but from one authority we learn that it was elected by and composed of persons who seem to have been otherwise wholly unconnected with the town. The immediate government was vested in a Legislature of one chamber, which had also judicial power, elected in some unknown way, and responsible, not to the people, but to the higher body. The executive...
...principal information about these "men" is derived from some scattered sheets of what were probably periodicals published by the men themselves. We learn from these that there existed among the men a continual discontent with the acts of the Legislature, which they speak of as the "Faculty." If this word is the same as the Latin facilis, as seems probable, the ironical application of the name becomes evident. This, too, would seem to imply quite an advanced state of intellectual culture among the inhabitants of Harvard...