Word: learns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...assistance that helps a man to make a judicious choice his Sophomore year. Frequently the adviser does no more than sign the card and leave the Freshman to his fate. During the second year there is absolutely no provision for the men who will not or can not learn to use judgment, and any possible good that the Freshman adviser system may do is in such cases reduced...
...simplest, narrowest field of political activity is discussion with your neighbor. The widest field at present, with the possible exception of work in a few high offices difficult to reach, is offered by newspaper writing or management. If the college graduate realizes that he has thus far only 'learned to study'; if he combines a desire to learn with a capacity for receiving strong impressions and a real sympathy with the people; if he is willing to wait a long while, and perhaps indefinitely, for wealth, I should advise him to seek political and other useful activity in newspaper work...
...courts behind the Gymnasium. Old players will not be called out for a week in order to give the new men the entire attention of the coach. Men who have had experience in either basketball or hockey are specially urged to come out, as they should be able to learn the game quickly...
...unopenable. Where athletic clothes are piled after each day's exercise, there is no attempt at fumigation, or even thorough cleaning, and the dust of months is allowed to accumulate. In the Gymnasium proper, in the looker rooms, in the baths, the air is foul. Small wonder that we learn of cases of eczema among the men who use the lockers...
...article of most genuine interest in the current number of the Illustrated Magazine is undoubtedly Mr. von Kaltenborn's report of a lecture delivered before a German audience on "The American Impressions of a German Exchange Professor." These impressions, it is gratifying to learn, are as flattering to Harvard as they are interesting. Mr. John Adams contributes a scholarly and appreciative review of Professor Hart's recently completed "American Nation." Of the two timely papers on athletic subjects, one is a somewhat scrappy criticism of the individual members of the basketball team, the other narrates rapidly the history of hockey...