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...independent and questioning scholar this is possibly best, since lecture material should provide an incentive to deeper scholarship. But to the unskilled or uncurious student, lectures form a mere skeleton of ideas on which the meat of reading is to be hung. Unfortunately, the American lecture system, rests on a disciple-like trust of the professor and lacks the gusto of an alert and slightly hostile listening body...
Scene: A bar, disgustingly grubby, ill-lit, reeking of soggy cigar butts, garlic, and rancid butter. Set apart from the armpit set at the counter is a wizened skeleton of a man, with stubble on his cheeks and liquor dripping from his chin. This is Nomily Crass, pauper, sot, ne'er-do-well, and uncouth to the core. His friends call him Slum...
...Class of '33, first to spend its freshman year in the Yard, turned out for the largest reunion in College history, and got a special treat. Its members saw the first public exhibition of the Kronosaurus sea monster, skeleton of what was once the largest flesh-eating reptile in the ocean. There were also cocktails, a day at the Essex County Club, panels on education, and the Yale baseball game...
James is the Dean of the Anatomical School of Literature--the Neo-Sophistry which views poetry and prose as a connected skeleton. The curriculum is not particularly concerned with what the skeleton has to say, what it thinks about, or, indeed, if it's starving to death. It's bone-structure, marrow, and stomach-muscle, the physiology of literature...
...instead of pointed; the jawbone had a hole for a nerve passage which is characteristic of humans. But the evidence still seemed scanty to U.S. scientists. To expand it, Hurzeler set out 28 months ago, with backing from Manhattan's Wenner-Gren Foundation, to find an entire Oreopithecus skeleton, came to be called "keeper of the abominable coal man" by weary friends...