Word: parroted
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...with the University's series of lectures on the four great epic poets given by eminent authorities. But both accomplish the same purpose; a sympathetic appreciation of the spirit of the originals. Few undergraduates read Milton thoroughly, still fewer know Virgil and Dante beyond a few memorized lines repeated parrot-fashion, and relatively a handful have ever dipped into Homer. For the rest, and for this intellectual aristocracy as well, Professor Palmer's lecture this afternoon will open a vista into an unknown world...
...parrot-student" may have increased his knowledge, but unless he can put that knowledge to work, he is still sadly lacking in true education. On the other hand, the man who has a fair estimate of the work required, and who has cultivated in addition the habit of using his head, will very rarely flunk out. What is even more, he will have acquired a power that the "parrot-student" can never know...
...though more difficult of fruition, are sweeter. It is a sad truth that for many men a college degree means no more than a certificate of work gone through with-a certain number of years spent in such and such a way. "Grind" as he will, the student who, parrot-like, fills his blue-books full of his professor's own phrases, is, in the final analsis, little more benefited than the one who attends classes with the same sang-forld with which he pays the Bursar. And by the same token, the great majority of "bluffers" are simply those...
...Gardner G; Sweeney, R. S. Diet, H. F. Rogers, W. W. Webber J. Parrot. F. J. Peterson...
...passing of a large number of required subjects, the quantities and degree of advancement of each carefully set down in black and white. The more fortunate youths go to tutoring schools where they learn by heart answers to probable questions. In what way does this differ from a parrot learning the alphabet? Those of us who spent four years in acquiring the "canned education" necessary for admission to college would like to see the men coming on now in school have something in their mind's eye besides the examination paper. Let the college examine if it will...