Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange thing, this impulse to trust to someone else's knowledge of a subject rather than to one's own. The room-mate, who took the course two years ago, is to be trusted rather than one's own notebook, the professional tutors, who have probably never taken the course at all are to be trusted most of all. The most objectionable thing about the tutoring schools is that they destroy confidence in a man's ability to prepare for an examination by himself; it is doubtful, as some authorities may think, that they enable even their most ardent devotees...
Meanwhile, alert lawmakers, who keep little notebooks, began to list the questions which Congress ought to solve within the next year. A peek into such a notebook revealed the following entries: Prohibition enforcement legislation which General Lincoln C. Andrews is demanding, McFadden-Pepper Branch Banking bill, radio regulation bill, alien property settlement, Muscle Shoals leasing or sale, railroad consolidation, government shipping business, national waterways and the Great Lakes dispute (TIME, Nov. 22), action on Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report on the Philippines (see p. 8), Lausanne Treaty, ratification or rejection of the Berenger-Mellon French debt pact, farm...
...Governor General Leonard Wood was not applauded at all); he spoke of "public lands . . . rubber . . . righteousness . . . loyalty;" he heard a unanimous resolution, agreed upon by both Houses, informing President Coolidge of the intense desire of the Filipinos for immediate, complete, absolute independence. Colonel Thompson had another entry for his notebook, along with the item that the night before he had drunk champagne to Mr. Coolidge's health at the proposal of Manuel Quezon, president of the Senate...
...lecture system," it has been sagely observed, "Is a device to transfer facts from the notebook of a professor to the notebook of a student without passing them through the head of either...
...simply represent the fullfilment of the ideal of education of the Freshman who denounced his professor for a long list of assigned reading on the ground that it was the professor's duty to do the reading himself and report its content to the class. A fact in the notebook is worth two in the head is the watchword of the educational mechanist. And there is of course great truth in the principle for facts in the notebook are convenient when approaching examination prescribes review, and they don't get in the way afterward...