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Fortune's Guide to Freshman Notetaking:

WHEN THE PROFESSOR SAYS:                        YOU WRITE:

Probably the greatest quality of the poetry     John Milton -- born 1608
of John Milton, who was born in 1608, is the
combination of beauty and power.  Few have
excelled him in the use of the English language,
or for that matter, in lucidity of verse form,
'Paradise Lost' being said to be the greatest
single poem ever written."

Current historians have come to                 Most of the problems that now
doubt the complete advantageousness             face the United States are
of some of Roosevelt's policies...              directly traceable to the
                                                bungling and greed of President
                                                Roosevelt.

... it is possible that we simply do            Professor Mitchell is a
not understand the Russian viewpoint...         communist.

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue
ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature.
This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.
                -- Robert Parker, quoted in "Murder Ink",  ed. D. Wynn

Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school
make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car.

Good day to avoid cops.  Crawl to school.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths good theatre.
                -- Gail Godwin

Graduate life: It's not just a job.  It's an indenture.

Graduate students and most professors are no smarter than undergrads.
They're just older.

He that teaches himself has a fool for a master.
                -- Benjamin Franklin

"He was a modest, good-humored boy.  It was Oxford that made him insufferable."