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Someone stole the notebook from the Guard Table of the Adams House Gold Room Guard...
...observe whether anyone, professors net excluded, were able to assess intelligently a given body of information. Failure to adopt this suggestion will by no means be fatal; but it will insure a continuation of a major bane of American education, "the transfer of material from the professor's notebook to the student's without its passing through the mind of either...
Taking more than one leaf from the same notebook which Authors Dos Passos and Alfred Doblin used, which Maestro James Joyce used before them, Halper has neatly stitched together a story contemporary, kaleidoscopically eye-witnessing as a newsreel, but more dramatically edited than most cinema. Union Square's action is more continuous but less comprehensive than Dos Passos' more ambitious book. With a half-dozen main characters, a score of walk-on parts, the story gives an animated, life-like cross-section of teeming Manhattan...
Most authors keep notebooks. In them they jot down Ideas for future reference: the ideas are not necessarily their own, and no law says that they have to be. Many a note-jotting author collects phrases, verses and poems that strike his fancy. Usually not until Fame or Death has overtaken them do artists exhibit their sketchbooks or writers their notes. Aldous Huxley, reasonably far from Death, is not so far from Fame. On the strength of his previous work many a Huxley reader will buy this notebook ("an anthology with commentaries"), will find the comment keen, the choice...
Before the invention of printing lectures were the chief means of conveying factual knowledge. Today, when books of every sort abound, there is no longer need for a "transfer of material from the professor's notebook to the student's, without its passing through the mind of either." Lectures which are little more than an oral correspondence course have no place in the college...