Word: learne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often they serve as lightining-arresters, diverting the current of knowledge away from the student instead of into the very fibre of his being. Before they can be junked there will have to be eliminated from college all except those who have a serious purpose to study and learn. And before that can be done we shall have to rid ourselves of the false notion that a college degree is a badge of social eminence. Judge...
Suggest that Correspondent Bassett obtain some back copies of Aviation and learn what is going on in the world outside of Boston...
...here in America, as many Americans richer and undoubtedly more prominent than I am, go to Europe, notably to see your electric industries and rayon [synthetic silk] industries, in which you know that I am interested. It is as a traveler wishing to see and to learn that I am here, with very good friends who are also here to see and to learn...
...convention. Huge electric signs gleamed: "CHAMPION OF THE WORLD," "WORLD'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER." Printed matter told how the Tribune had licked Mayor Thompson & friends; how, because of the Tribune, "Chicago can again walk proudly among the cities!-and the class in advertising may now step up and learn a lesson from the politicians...
...what extent the scheme of academic contests, initiated by Mrs. Putnam will foster the general enthusiasm for learning in the colleges which adopt it can be determined only through experience. As to the dangers which this plan is liable to involve such as the advent of a time "when Yale men will wade into Paradise Lost for the greater glory of Yale" or the introduction of "the evils of spectacular athletic competition into scholarship" there should be little cause for worry. The want of "a good stage manager" and the "element of personal contact" should be enough to guarantee against...