Word: learn
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...gratification to learn that the hockey management intends to maintain the Freshman rink for a scrub series. The CRIMSON ventured to make the suggestion through no presumption, but because it knew scrub hockey was necessary, and because it was keenly interested in the preservation of athletics. As the manager says in a communication this morning, it is for the undergraduates to form the teams; but experience has shown that if the authorities do not take the lead, others hesitate to do so. We would therefore suggest that blue-books be placed in some convenient place, which may be signed...
...great satisfaction to the large majority of us who believe in Senior class dormitories, and to those who favor a general segregation of all the classes, to learn that the Senior dormitory allotment is now on a sounder basis than ever before. Never since the class of 1905 first secured the special Senior privilege have all the rooms in. Holworthy, Stoughton and Hollis been available to incoming Seniors...
...glad to learn that another crew race has been arranged with Cornell. Unfounded newspaper comment had given an impression, even in the minds of those who should have known better, that these respected rivals were to be omitted from our rowing schedule this year. Although these reports were promptly denied, it is gratifying to learn that the race is now a certainly, and that we are to have an opportunity of repaying the hospitality that was shown our athletes and musicians in Ithaca last year...
Reflecting on his own struggle to get an education, he resolved to found a school where the poorest boys and girls might learn and at the same time pay all the expenses of their education. This resolution was carried out in the Idaho Industrial Institute which he founded eight years ago with the help of five or six friends. Twenty students were admitted at that time. Today the school has increased to a remarkable degree and still there is a waiting list of over 200 who cannot be accommodated. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union...
...college career. The conclusion is dark College is a place to "broaden one's mind" but not through ineffectual pecking at all sorts of unrelated things, and not in "contact with men," which too often means becoming part of a clique. It is a place where we should learn to work as well as to play, where we should learn to enjoy work; and that will come through arousing real interest in some particular subject whether it be related or not to our later career. Thus, even here, moderate specialization is wise. Unless our careers fail to be what they...