Word: learning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...their places men who are better fitted to execute the opinions of the College. If we demanded reports with some degree of frequency and regularity, asking explanations whenever they are necessary, and were not afraid to speak above a whisper at a meeting, our officers would have opportunities to learn our wishes, and we should be free from the present system of confusion, under which, for instance, too often not even the treasurer of a society knows whether it is bankrupt...
However, I was filled with sorrow to learn that the character of the community and the traditions of the college prevented them from joining the undignified crowd which at present participates in the intercollegiate regattas; for it appears to me that the races need some proud and dignified college like the University of Vermont to give them tone and put them on a respectable basis: moreover, the desire of Union and Hamilton is great, and their cry is loud for some one to enter the lists whom they can stand a chance of beating...
...which is requisite for general culture. At Dartmouth there is a course of lectures on law delivered to the academic students. They do not go into the subject deeply, but enough to read the frequent law terms which occur in articles, newspapers, and books with more intelligence, and to learn in a short time what could only be acquired by a chance explanation in conversation or in years of general reading...
...glad to learn that the Directors of the Reading-Room are taking steps which look toward a surer foundation for the success of one of the best institutions within our University. It is generally known that during the years previous to this a large debt for gas was contracted; and now that the directors see their way clearly towards a debtless year of our own, it is proposed to pay off this debt of other years that has long hampered the actions of the association. To this end subscriptions are being tendered by the able and the willing, and through...
...touching account of the guileless simplicity of the Freshman concludes with the eloquent lament, "How soon do they learn to look at it [total depravity] through a different medium...