Word: blackboarding
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...much truth the philosophers had amassed was perhaps best revealed by a little man who rose from the back rows and asked permission to speak. After several minutes his learned listeners still understood nothing of his polysyllabic lecture. At length he went to the blackboard and drew a series of complicated equations (which Expert Russell later pronounced nonsense). Then the little man smiled and said softly: "And this, gentlemen, solves the problem of the world...
Then he tripped down from the platform and was never heard of again. What he wrote on the blackboard was erased and nobody had copied it down...
...green corduroy jacket, Mr. Fisher could pitch horseshoes and he could square-dance. But he also knew something about symphonies and poetry. On the walls of the classroom, he hung reproductions of paintings by artists Bunk did not know: Cezanne, Bellini, Rouault, Rousseau, Winslow Homer. And on the blackboard, he wrote things like "The best portion of a good man's life, according to Wordsworth, is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love...
With Yale and Princeton already on the schedule and dickering now going on for dates with two New York clubs and the Bermuda team, the booters will continue to practice on Monday and Wednesday with ball-passing in the Blockhouse exercise room, conditioning on the track, and blackboard instruction in plays until the snow is off the turf...
...bookcases, tore up maps, scattered papers, threw books out the windows. They went to the principal's office, threw ink over the walls, smashed up a radio, a phonograph and every record in the room. At the end, they went back to a classroom and wrote on a blackboard: "I'm sorry we had to do it," and "Too bad-from the people who done...