Word: learnning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...closing, the lecturer laid down four propositions: The land belongs to the people; communal ownership has never proved economical; private ownership under national control seems the best thing for us; if the state ever recalls its lands it must compensate the individual owners. We may learn so to co-ordinate private enterprise and social co-operation as to realize the divine order. - Extracts from Springfield Republican...
...junior at Yale has formed a class to learn the Hawaiin language...
...good. A chapter on the use of Narcotics is an example. Towards the end of the book the suggestions for remembering names would be practically valuable. If on introduction the name were carefully repeated aloud, there would be no difficulty in remembering it. Also the chapter on "How to Learn a New Language," might really benefit a student if he observed its rules, and for such chapters the book is valuable, though in parts it approaches the fanciful...
...effect of that action has had time to develop, and what has been discovered? None of those evils which we were told were sure to follow the reckless piece of liberation which the faculty had displayed. Students have had the advantage of an extra year wherein they might learn how to work and how to systemize that. There are many men in college to-day who have their electives chosen for their whole college course, and when changes have been or are necessary, they are made judiciously, with the conception of the unity of the whole well in mind...
...present it is but speaking the honest truth, that there is very little true scholarship at Harvard, little desire to learn for learnings sake, and but very little respect for high scholarship...