Word: note-book
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...attack on the first level of objection, there is the question of which would you rather sit at or in? A ten foot long piece of wood sculpture of ancient indigenous origin, with lots of room on which to lay your note-book, of whatever shape you may have, and your hat, if you wear one, your spare pencil, your spectacles and your watch, with lots of leg-room underneath, to tilt, squirm, or sprawl as the fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with...
...embellished by an occasional bright idea. So, from the fact that a French filling-station attendant in Quebec had never heard of Socony gasoline, to the no less interesting fact that sufficient okilchao will produce a walking pass-out sans hangover, he notes down everything which makes an imprint on his consciousness in his little brown note-book, later to be transcribed into essays and transmuted into shekels. There's lots of the Morley personality injected, because Morley is a genial, big-hearted, good-living man, and people like to hear about him and what he thinks of apple...
...professorial vaudeville may emerge from this trial by fire with a valuable residue of knowledge. For more than 30 weeks he must submit to being talked at by ten or more professors, to adjusting himself weekly to a new style of delivery, and to winnowing his over crowded note-book for the handful of good grains...
...clearly advantageous to single out parellels, that the incipiently great among us may be recognized. First, there is the apathetic student who carves monograms in Sever while the lecturer's torrent of words slides off him. A "mute, inglorious Milton", taking his first steps! Likewise, what of the note-book sketcher? Another Whistler in the cotyledonous stage, learning his art under scholastic duress! As for the Darwins those fraternities and organizations that demand initiatory cats doubtless have their place in the education of great men. Or such, at least, are the comforting inferences to be drawn from the work...
...note-book...