Word: learns
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Seeking sorrow's cause to learn...
...system of Reserved Books at the Library is such an admirable one, that it is with much regret that we learn that some of the students have abused it. In one of the History courses one of the most necessary books has been secretly taken away and kept out for several days, and this practice has been renewed from time to time. Another cause of complaint, less culpable than the former, but still very annoying, is the manner in which students leave the reserved books lying around in the different alcoves, instead of returning them to their proper shelves...
...should be placed in an insane asylum. Then comes a long lesson in spelling, as an unlucky exchange has spelt. "Niagara" "Niagra." And the exchanges end with a biting piece of satire on the Dartmouth, and a hint that its poetical editor, and, indeed, most college poets, had better "learn to handle a shovel or do chores." Verily we tremble in our boots...
...learn from an advertisement in a Western exchange that "The Harvard suit, now worn by college students all over the country." consists in a "four-button, straight-cut, frock coat, made of either a very nobby cassimere, English worsted, or basket goods." No mention is made of any other garment. Well, we live and learn...
...have yet to learn what there is about the auditorium of Appleton Chapel that so effectually robs men of their voices. Surely, after so many statements, it cannot have failed to be understood by all that the choir was formed simply and solely to act as lead for the others in the singing; that it sings in unison, so that all who attend prayers may join with it in unisonous singing, which is easy and effective; and that tunes are selected which (for the most part, at least) lie within range of all voices. It is absurd to suppose that...