Word: learning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...which in part burlesques "Rupert of Hentzau." A pleasant mixture of English setting and American humor is "My Diary," by J. Hinckley '06. "The Joy of Living," by G. W. D. Gribble Sp., is an interesting and careful study of too often seen characters, who curiously reveal themselves and learn their moral lesson while listening to Sudermann's play. Those who prefer stories that suggest, rather than explain, will enjoy "The Bread of Wickedness," by P. Perkins...
...young men, Mr. Cosby said, to take part in the affairs of the country and, by endeavoring to give intelligence and honesty their proper place in politics, to do away with the present type of professional politician. Young men should recognize that they must take their share in affairs, learn men, find out what is necessary to be done, and do it. As politicians are professional men who have graduated from a training in practical politics, they are to be defeated only by men who have also had such a training. Young men, therefore, who desire to go into politics...
...promising simplicity, and vigor of movement. Perhaps the most significant article, however, is that which urges a new course. The writer is of opinion that Harvard men do not write good short stories; and with the artless assumption, so characteristic of our present system, that no one can learn anything without taking a course in it, he urges that a special course in short stories be instituted here. If he had incidentally pointed out a single instance when such a special course, in any subject, anywhere, had ever resulted in practical achievement his case might be stronger. Whoever wishes...
Several men are acting in the industrial and religious work at the Boston Industrial Home, an institution at which tramps are given food and shelter in return for work. About twelve men are teaching in the Chinese Sunday School on Beacon Hill. Chinamen come there at first to learn the English language but a large number of them, attracted by the spirit of the place, continue to come back for the religious teaching of the school. Through the Boston Children's Aid Society other men are meeting groups of children, usually in some room of a tenement house...
...Intercollegiate Tennis Association is now waiting to learn, through President P. E. Presbrey of the National Tennis Association, whether the two English universities, Cambridge and Oxford, are in favor of an international intercollegiate tennis match. No further steps will be taken concerning the matter until about Thursday, when a definite answer is expected...