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...knowledge. The illustrator Vivant Denon marched 3,000 miles through Upper Egypt with General Desaix. lagging dangerously behind the army to sketch the ruins at Abydos and Tentyra. When he and other pioneer Egyptologists ran out of pencils, they sketched with bullets. The descriptions Denon wrote in his notebook still glow with the sense of wonder the French felt as discoverers of an ancient world...
...prowled around New York bookstores, buying and reading everything he could find about Lincoln. One day he was on a lecture tour in North Caroline. Although he had left all his notes home Van Doren says "I heard Lincoln talking to me." He took out the hardbound black notebook he always keeps with him and began to write. Within a week the play was virtually complete...
Armed with a thick black notebook crammed with facts about Central America, President Kennedy prepared to fly this week to San Jose, the tree-shaded capital city on Costa Rica's central plateau. In the city's massive National Theater building, he was to spend three days in conference with six Central American Presidents, underlining again his expressed belief that Latin America is "the most critical area in the world today...
...chairs on either side of Randall were vacant, giving the class a strained formality. After hearing the popular stories about the school's artistic sloppiness, it was surprising to see the girls neatly dressed. Many wore sweaters, mostly shetland. In front of each girl lay an orderly loose leaf notebook, into which the girls made frequent entries. Several girls kept outline notes...
These students should be getting a Radcliffe education; although they take the same courses as resident students, the commuters are denied the educational experience of dorm living. Too frequently the commuter's education stops when she puts away her notebook after her last assignment. Moreover, it is very difficult for commuters to participate in extra-curricular activities which would require them to stay in Cambridge late at night or to travel over the weekend...