Word: learns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...country, too, we put the emphasis more on foreign languages than you do. French and English are always required, and the average man learns another language. The emphasis is all put on the practical side; we learn to speak the language. We do not learn to read it well, which you do, however...
...principle ways, then, in which education in South America differs from that here is that the division is different, that there is no elective system, and that we learn to speak languages rather than to read them...
Nothing could be more fitting than that men representing the culture and training for service in which we are also upreared should meet where they may learn what their nation needs, and how best they may fulfill that need. We can be sure that the annual convention will bring forth results in unity of action wherever Harvard men wield influence in communities throughout the country...
...shock to most men to learn coldly that Germany's submarine war is a far greater peril than we had supposed, that the famed advance against the western front is recovering slowly by inches what Germany took rapidly by yards, that many good men are dying in order that the red fields of France may be once more free. We are learning that the German morale is not yet broken, that some millions of the finest war-trained troops, armed with all that modern science may give to the soldier, are holding fiercely that French and Belgian land which they...
...Ussher was in Jerusalem, and while there he went through a German "Inn for Pilgrims" which is very strategically situated on the Mount of Olives. He was surprised to learn that there were cannon in the basement and was told that the palatial "Inn" would be the headquarters of the first German governor of Palestine and after that would be occupied by the Kaiser when he was supervising the government of that section of his dominions...