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• W15558039 abstract "Footnotes, in modern times, have become a woe of students and the hallmark of scholars. Frequently undergraduates when speaking of their term papers refer to both the number of pages and the number of foot notes. Seldom do they bother to mention the number of sources they cited. Scholars, especially the historians, use them religiously to prove or sup port their statements and the art of footnoting has been extensively devel oped. Any number of style manuals will explain how to form the footnote for any situation. are, therefore, a common thing to thousands of people but who among those thousands can say when they began? I have not been able to discover their origin. Articles have been written to both condemn and defend them, but none, that I can find, to trace their origin. They therefore seem to be the mark of a scholar but not the ob ject of his study. The material I have found has largely been of a humorous nature. John Updike wrote an entertaining article deploring the extensive use of foot notes in poetry.1 It occasioned a witty rejoinder by John Atherton in which he suggested poetry might be reduced to mathematics.2 Garland of Ibids for Van Wyck Brooks, by Frank Sullivan condemns the extensive use of footnotes.8 This article has 32 amusing footnotes in five paragraphs of text. Likewise Fairfax Downey has written an article suggesting that authors might sell more books if they used fewer notes.4 The footnote controversy appears in the professional literature of li brarians. Paul Dunkin in Library Resources and Technical Services dis courses against long footnotes and suggests how they might be shortened or, in some cases, eliminated.5 This article occasioned a reply by Jesse Shera in the Wilson Library Bulletin in which he maintains that discursive footnotes are sometimes justified, but laments the use of Latin phrases.6 Hilaire Belloc7 and John Ayscough8 have included witty pieces on foot notes in their books of essays. Ayscough wonders if footnotes are used to evade parentheses. Both essayists attack historians and their use of foot notes. Belloc considers footnotes a form of mendacity; Ayscough says Footnotes are the curse of history. They are pestilent excrescences on erudition, and stumbling-blocks in the path of readers who are not erudite, and want to get on.9 Under the definition for footnote in the OED the earliest reference given is to William Savage's A Dictionary of the Art of Printing (1841), which contains 88 Bottom notes . . . also termed Foot-notes. Perhaps this is" @default.
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• W15558039 title "Where Did It Begin? THE ORIGIN OF FOOTNOTES" @default.
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