Word: nitpicking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing, they could have shortened the "Prologue" and used the space for other organizations. The "Chronology" (which isn't chronological, but why nitpick?) is supposed to be a trip throught the 350-year history of our college. Yet interspersed among the interesting histories and old photos are artistic pictures of autumn leaves, snow covered rocks, or shadowy, unrecognizable paths...
...other difficulties mar Brady's work, such as his tendency to rely on too much direct quotation from Boswell's compendious papers, as opposed to paraphrasing or explicating it. To nitpick, one feels another shortcoming is the dearth of illustrations accompanying the text to enliven the famous names. Many prominently mentioned members of Boswell's circle, Goldsmith, Burke, Temple, and most egregiously Boswell's father, wife and children, are not included. Neither, of course, are paintings of London or Edinburgh...
More telling are the words, "to emphasize a separation between different races." Bok's use of the word between may indicate he had in mind only two races--presumably, Black and white--or it may be again just a technicality. But I nitpick to prove a point; for separation within a given race has long been acceptable at Harvard. "The jocks play around Soldiers Field, the actors play around the Loeb, and the WHRBies play around WHRB, and the academics play around Widener, and the Crimeds play around here," as one Crimson editor said...