Word: rote
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mighty fine o' yer ter let yer readers know about our "Former Apple Butter Stirrers' Society Fer The Purpose Of Promulgatin, Promotin and Perpetuatin Memories Of Apple Butter Stirrin Days." And th' former apple butter stirrers thet's rote in 're mighty grateful...
...heavier (weight 69 lb.), has substituted a brushed-back bob for the Dutch bangs of his pre-ministerial days. Under the tutelage of his middle-aged nurse and nose-wiper, Neva Duff, he has learned to read from the Bible, study third-grade subjects. But he still sermonizes by rote, had to be coached by Nurse Duff in his ordination sermon. Cocky, pounding fist on fist to emphasize his points, he shrilled: "I want to assure you there is a Hell, and it's a place, not just a state." When his audience oh-ed and ahed too patronizingly...
...hard to find. In a day when oratory was fine art, and the limbs and outward flourishes of speech more highly rates than keen thinking, the original bequest provided for "a public exhibition in elocution." The speaker was "never to rehearse his own composition," but merely to learn by rote some famous passage and deliver it as best he could. The Lee Wade competition even went so far as to require everybody to learn the same piece, until one long-suffering audience was prostrated by seven or eight canters with Browning's Good News from Ghent...
...sections be established, in every large course. The first suggestion can be dismissed as being financially impracticable and the result of expecting school methods of instruction in college. The same financial obstacles lie in the way of having smaller sections and more section hands to teach them. Objection to rote learning of a multitude of facts is a natural reaction to the vast broadening of all the fields of knowledge in the course of the change from school to college study. But the establishment of differentiated sections, as is now done in History 1, would free those students who have...
...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 to rote-learning...