Word: glean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a U. S. highbrow (notably Gilbert Seldes) has "discovered" the comic strip, along with the cinema, burlesque et al. Advanced is the theory that the social historian of the future will find rich lore in its crudely drawn and colored cartoons. Accordingly, some future pundit may glean from last week's 20th Anniversary page the impression that anniversary gifts consist mostly of earthenware, that after the party the host (in tailcoat, grey cravat, purple vest) is lapidated by his wife while he loudly cries: "Maggie?please save a cup fer coffee in the morning...
...nature of things. A minority of lecturers would continue to be talking text-books. A minority of students would take advantage of the new system to cut, just as they take advantage of the present system to avoid supplementary reading and depend solely on the disconnected facts they glean from lectures. In both cases, however, they would suffer the same penalty as at present --the former by lecturing to empty seats, the latter by premature ejection from the realms of higher education. The true understanding of a subject, as demanded by Princeton's educational ideal, can no more be obtained...
...which greeted the assertion that the remedy for political evils lies not in the red flag, but in the ballot box, and in spite of the fervor with which the bass drummer accompanied the singing of "The Internationale," neither the man of property nor the apostles of Lenin could glean much satisfaction from the proceedings. For none of the uniformed officers interfered with communist speakers, although outnumbering the twenty-nine avowed communists by almost three to one, they might have mastered them without machine-guns. And none of Moscow's emissaries attempted to heckle Mr. Fish even when he used...
...many things useful to civilian life--mechanics, navigation, horsemanship, electricity, history, and innumerable other items connected with the land and sea. For my own part, I can say that in one short summer cruise I learned more about human nature and mankind in general than I ever expect to glean form the books, lectures, and conferences of Philosophy...
...whole purpose of the tutorial system has been to eliminate the necessity of taking an entire course in order to glean a very few facts, and together with the divisionals and the distribution requirements, it has successfully discouraged the practise, so flourishing in former days, of taking sixteen "snap" courses and getting a degree. Here is a instance where it has apparently failed, but the application is the same and a remedy is in order. Whether it be in the direction of departmental reorganization or that of closer tutorial supervision cannot here be discussed, but a system of preliminary examinations...