Word: learning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Amherst Student needs to learn that it is never safe to jump at conclusions. Because they were unable to find the answer to the riddle in our poem called "After Browning," they should not pronounce it "merely a collection of words indiscriminately thrown together." There is so good a point to the answer that we should be sorry to have the Student miss it merely from dulness, so try it again, and if you have to give it up let us know, and we'll send you the solution...
Such announcement of cuts seems to us an unmixed good, and it is only with unpleasant surprise that we learn of the Registrar's interference with its continuance. This is not the first occasion on which the present Registrar has interfered officiously, when not officially, with matters that seem without the sphere of his action, and has manifested a spirit towards students that may in future render the legitimate exercise of his functions less agreeable than would be desirable. We certainly admire the subordinate's strict execution of a superior officer's orders, but when an inferior becomes more rigorous...
...well known that the Forest and Stream has offered a valuable piece of plate as a prize for an intercollegiate rifle-match. From the columns of that journal we learn that many colleges have taken hold of the subject energetically, and their rifle-clubs are looking around among their graduates for suitable men to coach them. Columbia claims Colonel Gildersleeve, and Williams will probably call on Mr. Orange Judd. The Forest and Stream also offers "to a college rifle-club, a member of which will furnish us with the best appropriate design for a vase or shield, a gold badge...
...have received a communication, unfortunately crowded out of this issue, treating of the historic landmarks of Cambridge, and deploring their rapid destruction. In connection with this we are sorry to learn that a movement is on foot to cut down those graceful old elms on Brattle Street, which formerly overshadowed the shop of that village smithy whom our Cambridge poet has so sweetly made famous. It is perhaps useless to expect that the influence of professors or students will be effective on an unbridled and Port-pampered government; we can only invoke the aid of the equally unbridled public opinion...
...could they thy soft spirit learn...