lecture, n.All

A Lecture makes you feel numb on one end and dumb on the other.

The Lecture is dreadfully boring and good for only one thing - to give a certain education to the persons who write the lectures.

A Lecture is a process by which a professor's notes are passed to his students without necessarily passing through the brains of either.

A Lecture is an entertainment at which it costs but little to look intelligent

A Lecture is the art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through the minds of either.

A Lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other