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...room between acts. They jokingly gave her schillings and she bought brandy to treat them all. Several months later she was asked to sing her "English" songs at Vienna's famed Pavilion. She bought phonograph records of "Mean to Me" and "Annabelle Lee," learned to sing them by rote-to the amusement of two U. S. vandevillians who had joined the Pavilion troupe...
...mere lecture periods of double duration. There is in general a great deal of duplication in the content of the reading, the lectures, and the laboratory periods. All of these are overmuch concerned with terminology, classification, and the minutiae of fact. The course would be improved by leaving such rote work to be done outside of class, reserving the lectures and section meetings for consideration of more advanced points, the theories, and the many problems which biology is facing today. Reading assigned in other than the one textbook, in the controversial literature of biology, would be excellent. If, in addition...
...Tyrol in the autumn. She had never seen the mountains, but she felt sure she would love them. There was a photograph of them on the wall of the kindergarten in which she taught at Manchester. The moment he saw her the strapping young innkeeper of the Gasthaus Rote Hirsch, above Innsbruck, knew that he and Fanny would get along together. For the police register she confessed to being 29. The amiable innkeeper was amazed. The reason she looked so childlike, he decided, was because she was always with "de liddle vuns." The reason he spoke English so well...
Foremost campaigner for the President was short, ruddy, big-nosed Ogden Livingston Mills. As Secretary of the Treasury he had lived, slept and slaved with the Hoover reconstruction program since its inception last year. Its details he knew by rote. On the stump he became its greatest expounder and expositor...
...between a "study" and studying. Secondary education he finds to be dominated by "studies", as for instance physics, and mathematics, without recognition of the extent to which these subjects cross-fertilize and interpenetrate each other in their higher reaches. The student in the elementary and secondary grades learns by rote the body of material supposed to belong to each of these separate subjects. Long afterwards, or not all, there is revealed to him the exciting implications of one subject for another...