Word: learning
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Furthermore," he continued, "I was entirely surprised to learn that we had set the figure $5,6000 as our aim. We have no definite sum in mind, and it is not likely that we shall until we see what the response to our appeal...
...second factor is the inadequacy of school preparation in essentially elementary subjects. Languages, to take the outstanding example, are, above all branches of learning, peculiarly adaptable to secondary school teaching methods. If a student is ever to learn a foreign tongue, he most certainly should do so when he is under the individual supervision and painstaking care of a secondary school teacher. Languages in colleges are only well taught in the most advanced stages for the obvious reason that there is neither the time nor the money to provide adequate instruction in this field. A clear example of the futility...
Late last fall rugby enthusiasm was first aroused by T. L. Jarman 1G, a graduate of New College, Oxford, and a Davison scholar at Harvard. In a short article published in the CRIMSON Jarman made the proposals for a team, inviting those interested to come out and learn the game. Practice began early this spring when a squad of about 30 men reported for the team...
...President Hoover last week. The London Conference had resulted in a three-power naval limitation agreement between Britain, Japan and the U. S. . Many a U. S. citizen who had got the idea that the Administration expected a five-power treaty from the five-power parley was surprised to learn from the President's statement of results that he had all along held a five-power agreement "extremely improbable." Declared President Hoover of these results: "It is difficult to estimate the precise reductions in war craft tonnage which have been brought about. . . . The saving on the present basis...
...Live and Learn. Presented by Michael Kallesser-who wrote One Man's Woman, Trial Marriage, Marriage on Approval- Live and Learn is a thin little wisp of domestic dramaturgy. If Frederick Manning ("a vagabond and a plunger") had not come to dine with Harold ("who has a pagan love for movement and color") and Mabel Fuller, along with Annette Roberts ("a gold digger on a legal holiday"), there would have been no elderberry wine. Had it not been for the elderberry wine, Harold would not have been drunk, Annette more drunk. Nor would Mabel have left home and Frederick...