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Several years ago Albert Jay Nock wrote a stimulating article on culture, which he described thus: ". . . One would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning. Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. . . . The essence of culture is never to be satisfied with a conventional account of anything...
...schedule a certain number of hours which he will waste each day. He may study in those hours, but will learn things he will never use and promptly forget. But this waste has a value; it shows him something dull or worthless or leads to a dead end. As Nock said further in the same article: "Useless knowledge . . . gains value only as it is forgotten. . . . So let no one be fazed by his inability to accomplish a scholastic task quickly. Part of his Harvard education is realizing that he cannot use every minute to a positive advantage. Yet he does...
...treaty U. S. gunboats have the right to patrol the Yangtze River, an international waterway. The war between Japan and China has not legally affected these rights. The U. S. river gunboat Monocacy (pronounced mo-nock'-asy) has recently been on refugee work near Kuikiang, 450 miles upstream from Shanghai. Low on food and fuel, the coal-burning ship was scheduled to go to Shanghai for provisioning...
Arthur Darby Nock, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion, has been appointed a Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, replacing Alfred North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, who will become emeritus next September...
...tomorrow. Tomorrow the Vagabond puts on his seven-league boots and winged helmet and does a superhuman job of Vagabonding. At nine he listens to Crane Brinton, Harvard 5, on "Rousseau." At ten to Professor Nolte, Sever 7, on "The Age of Enlightenment". At eleven to Professor Arthur J. Nock, Harvard 2, in History of Religions 1, on "Zoroaster". A well balanced metaphysical diet...