Word: unlearn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ultimately prominent oars in college, no small part have received school training. The one drawback so far as these are concerned has been that their grounding is often of a different character than the principles they are taught in the college eights, and consequently they have to unlearn and assimilate anew. In coaching crews from the Boston schools the B. A. A. rowing authorities have the opportunity of rendering a distinct service to Harvard by starting novices on practically the same lines of coaching to which they will be subjected after entrance...
...wrong ideas that we have of the distinctions between men. The first thing we learn in geography is that we are civilized and that many of the other races are barbarians whom we are indeed to pity but not to regard as brothers. A good school in which to unlearn this idea is the Midway Plaisance at Chicago. There we see all sorts of men side by side and we see that really they are all the same. The Religious Congress was really an educational congress. If no one there learned anything new about...
Miller, No. 5, has evidently rowed in single sculls and has to unlearn much; fails to sit up to his work and swings back...