Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Buffalo went Dr. Eugene G. Wiseman to explain myopia (nearsightedness) to the American Academy of Optometry at Manhattan last week. When he said that humans still look as fishes do, his audience thought of those coldly glaring individuals popularly called "fishy-eyed" because their eyes have the impersonal stare of a dead fish. Dr. Wiseman meant that human eyes are not set squarely on the front of the face. Human eyes are cocked slightly to each side...
...narrow specialization of graduate students. "The insistence that a teacher . . . must be able to produce a degree of Master of Arts or even Doctor of Philosophy," he said, "can only result in multiplying many times over the number of graduate students at American universities, while bringing them to look upon their university residence and work as a penance to be endured. Such artificial rules . . . . . tend to destroy . . . that joy in learning and that zeal for inquiry which are the making of a university spirit. . . . Then, too, there is that tendency . . . to specialize so severely, as to make the student blind...
...grew this beard just to play Santa Claus. It's detachable. Want a look...
...Miss Smith enters, the Wistful Youth takes one look, and then concentrates...
...Thanks very much, Doctor, for signing me off. Look me up when you come to Joliet...