Word: learned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Without doubt the college man who has chosen as his summer occupation to enter the ranks of those who earn their living by muscular effort, and thereby learn at first hand the fundamental problems which face the industrial world in this era of transition and unrest, has made a the thorough, wise and farsighted choice. Theirs will be an invaluable opportunity to experience for a study their ideas of social reform, and ultimately to aid intelligently in the present world-wide search for a more satisfactory combination of the conditions which govern the life of the worker, and a more...
...attacks on crew policy, or the CRIMSON's insist ant demand for war long before it was declared. Some of these editorial stands aroused antagonism which has not yet died out. Before the war, a committee of graduates collected a fund and sent selected men to flying schools to learn aviation. One of the men chosen was a CRIMSON editor, but after he had gone a member of the committee learned that he had been concerned in the attack on the crew system and expressed a strong opinion that the man would never have been selected had this been known...
...chief value of a college education lies, not in any specific facts the student may learn, but in a general wide development. College should teach men to face life, not merely a particular phase of life. But the trend of changes at other colleges is toward practical efficiency--it is essentially a part of that paternalistic Prussian atmosphere which pervades the country. The inauguraters of these changes seem not to care whether a man thinks, so long as he is a good cog in the machine of government...
...with good teaching could learn enough Latin in six months to get into an American college", says Mr. Chapman, "and just this amount, this little smattering of latin, is enough to make the whole difference in any man's outlook upon civilization. This bonus bona, bonum' makes French and Spanish and Italian easy to him. It puts him at home in half the words of the English language. Almost everything an educated man has to do with is tinged with 'bonus, bona, bonum...
...mass meeting tonight is of the utmost importance to the University. Not only is there the Harvard spirit to awaken, but also all must learn the cheers and songs necessary for success. The two lower classes have not heard them, and the Seniors and Juniors will do well to relearn the many verses of the songs...