Word: parroted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were aroused from their customary places in the cafes by a penetrating shriek, "Long live Venizelos, and the revolution." Fearing a new uprising, they rushed out en masse to locate the culprit, only to find that the object of their anxiety was no more than a trained parrot. Rebel sympathizers now fear for the life of the parrot...
...pound class--Parrot (A) defeated Gordon F. Robertson '36 (H) by decision...
...college rather than on the entrance examinations is stressed. College study demands not so much a definite quota of facts-the variety of subjects accepted for entrance proves this but for that "ability to think," which is identical with the "ability to learn," in any but the most parrot-like sense. It is in this latter sense indeed, that it is encouraged by the present system of entrance examinations, and it is in this sense that the word "pate-stuffing" has been applied. Scholarship, it is true, can not be sacrificed to "culture," but neither should it be sacrificed...
...breakbone" fever,* parrot fever. During one study he contracted breakbone fever, during another parrot fever. The parrot fever attack made him particularly useful to the wife of Senator William Edgar Borah when she contracted that disease. Serum from Dr. Armstrong's immune blood cured her. Dr. Armstrong's current assignment is last year's epidemic of sleeping sickness in St. Louis (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933, et ante). Last week he was working on the serology of the strangest of the St. Louis sleeping sickness cases when, too ill to continue, he went to the Naval Hospital...
...becomes apparent that a revolution is taking place in Harvard's class-room methods when lecture halls are no longer to be kept filled by the ministrations of a monitor and the shadow of a "parrot" examination. It is an interesting sign that the young government instructors, all of them tutors, who have volunteered the new series of lectures, regard the series as a valuable experiment in the technique of presentation. Harvard is to be treated to a view of what spirited informal and purely extra-curricular lectures can accomplish in the way of presenting information. At least so much...