Word: dolt
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...frank with him. I do not intend to be bound by examinations and tests. This whole scheme of sampling information is preposterous. A man's knowledge is his own property and it is outrageous to expect him to spill it out in blue books for the benefit of any dolt-headed instructor. And besides, I am not going to leave any data here to help these hirelings of the Boston bankers, as Upton Sinclair so well puts it, start another Boston police strike...
...special instructors will be: Mr. Herman Bose, in German gymnastics and fencing; Mr. John E. Dolt, in American gymnastics; Mr. Christian Eberhard, in class drills in light gymnastics; Lieut. Mark L. Hersey, in military drill; Mr. James G. Lathrop, in track and field athletics; Dr. F. N. Whittier, in developing appliances; Mr. John Bemler, in posturing and tumbling; Miss Grace E. Folger. in Swedish free movements and heavy gymnastics; Miss Ida May, in aesthetic movements and voice training; Miss Jennie B. Wilson, in general gymnastics...
...account of one pitiless proctorish dolt...
...freed myself from my meditations so far as to think her pretty, but how ugly does she seem to me as I remember her now!) - I accidentally overheard her say to a friend, "You talk about the intellectual face of a student; that one looked like a dolt. I should say he had stopped thinking." And I had been thinking about abstract truth and the immensity of space! I groaned, reeled, and staggered out of the car. A pedantic classmate met me at the door. "O my friend, you have committed the fallacy of composition; having empirically learned that...