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...hotels, artists stayed with Cambridge residents in their houses. According to Siggins, Club 47 filled a gap in American music history—it brought incredible talent and unique voices to the table that would otherwise go unheard. Folk music in Cambridge was also blind to class and social distinctions??that is, the clubs would be concurrently filled with Harvard kids and native Bostonians...
...newly released details reveal that the Law school will now award its Latin honors—cum, magna cum, and summa cum laude distinctions??on a proportional basis, with the summas going to the top one percent, magnas to the next 10 percent, and cum laudes awarded to the final thirty percent of graduates...
That similarity is striking because both Brooks and Ogletree quote Du Bois out of order. In his 1905 Niagara Movement address, Du Bois mentioned free speech first, education sixth, “manhood suffrage” third, and “caste distinctions?? fourth...
...Shakespeare. Passive reading allows students to get through the syllabus—and nothing more. When students do not ask questions of their reading, it offers little intellectual benefit. Whether the text is historical, philosophical or literary—my History and Literature friends might even argue against these distinctions??it deserves close attention. The Communist Manifesto, Graham Greene’s novels, and Descartes’ Meditations are begging to be poked, prodded, turned upside down, and shaken most vigorously. But when the clock is ticking and I still have 400 pages to go, I give Marx...
...special taxes, their walls were torn down, they were forbidden to carry weapons and they were forbidden to build any new churches. The Genoese, like the French, thought that they would be treated differently because they were a different kind of Westerner, but the Sultan did not heed such distinctions??to him they were all the same...