Word: unlearn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...over-whelming defeat of the Yale giants in '85, despite the manifest adoption by Yale of the essential feature of this method, and her consequent successes and despite the marked improvement in the speed of the boat since '85, the crew of '88, we are told, endeavored to "unlearn the radically wrong principles" of the three previous years. The endeavor was pre-eminently successful, and what was the result? A crushing defeat, such as had never been seen upon the Thames. At one time in the race there was almost half a mile between the two crews. Yale, naturally enough...
...that is quite a different thing from saying that they are not good. In fact, considering the peculiar circumstances under which Harvard has played football for the last two years, it is just as well that most of the men are new men, and have no bad teaching to unlearn. It is, indeed, to this readiness to learn, and to the steadying influence of the old men, that the team as it now stands is due, a team which is admitted by the other colleges to be one of the best Harvard has ever...
...life have been passed in having the doctrine ground into him, that the end of all study is to cheat the examiner, and that knowledge is valuable only so far as it can be made to pay in an examination, it is hard to see how he can unlearn the teaching he has received, and alter the character that has been formed in him. The grown man is what he has been taught to be, and out of cram may come many examination answers, or even a Fellowship, but not original research and the love of knowledge...
...activity; while the single sculls and the eights, going up and down the Charles, indicate the strong interest taken in the approaching class races; and this occasion is none too far off, for to a trained eye individual members of all the crews yet have much to learn and unlearn...