Word: appendix
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...could be wrong. Maybe Ali's quote really is more original than Tennyson's "And from his ashes be made/The violet of his native land," which has two cross-references. Or maybe I'm right, and the editors didn't feel like selling a separate appendix listing all the other people who claimed greatness...
...Overseers--which consists of 30 alumni elected for five-year terms, the president and the University treasurer--was the University's first governing body, later joined by the President and Fellows, more commonly known as the Corporation, in 1650, the first incorporated organization in North America. In the 1657 Appendix to the Charter, the Corporation was given the power to make major decisions which would affect the University, but the Overseers had to approve those decisions...
...than information. The long-range result, says Hirsch, is that children can now decode words but lack the understanding to put what they read into broad, insightful context. The Hirsch antidote: heavy doses of Western cultural lore, as represented by a list of nearly 5,000 entries in an appendix labeled "What Literate Americans Know," ranging from A ("act of God") to Z ("Zeitgeist"), and including "1066" and "White Christmas (song)." Knowing at least a commercial idea when it sees one, namely the untrivial sales impact of the list, Houghton Mifflin promises more where it came from, i.e., a dictionary...
...exactly what knowledge will be vividly taught? Cultural Literacy is obviously meant to provoke serious debate. But when it leaves the theoretical and lands on the practical, it executes a pratfall. Hirsch and two academic colleagues offer a 64-page appendix of references that constitutes their version of vital information. They never do get around to telling the reader that Brownian motion is a random movement of microscopic particles suspended in liquids or gases, that Walter Pater said we should burn with a hard gemlike flame and that comme il faut means proper. They are too busy moving their curriculum...
...appendix of her book she wrote: "Those