Word: spoutings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Algonquin's Round Table perished years ago, but it bequeathed Kaufman, Benchley and Dorothy Parker as the town's great wits. Kaufman has proved almost as much of a spout offstage as on. His puns are endless: "One man's Mede is another man's Persian" or (of a college girl who eloped) "She put the heart before the course." So are his retorts discourteous. When Adolph Zukor, then president of Paramount, offered Kaufman $30,000 for movie rights on a play, Kaufman, who thought the rights worth much more, replied: "I guess...
...Harvard's down the spout...
Walking encyclopedias who spout names and dates and other people's theories are plodding along today in the field of social sciences according to Professor Mather in a recent interview on concentration and distribution. Natural sciences not social sciences teach the student methods of thought and analysis and give him the tools to work out problems under his own steam. This is not a reflection upon the intrinsic merits of the social sciences as a field of concentration, but rather the attack points an accusing finger at the manner in which social sciences are being taught at Harvard...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, claimed that science, better than anything else, teaches students to think clearly. "So many men who have concentrated in history or government, for example, become walking encyclopedias. They spout dates, facts, and other persons' theories, but have not learned to think for themselves. In the science lab the student learns to work out his own problems by himself...
...Wolfe was a huge bear of a man, forceful, shrewd, hard-drinking, hard-cussing. He served a penitentiary term for shooting a man who insulted a lady he was escorting, personally broke into every boathouse on Buckeye Lake to aid rescue work during the 1913 flood, used to spout memorized poetry by the yard. He died...