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...Umina, a "dark horse" candidate for the GOP nomination proposed to make state government more efficient by laying off 30 percent of its workers...
THANKS to the three hottest summers on record during the last decade, the American news media has firmly implanted in our collective consciences the idea of the "greenhouse effect." Nearly every week, new evidence and opinions concerning global warming from authorities in science, industry or the government make national headlines...
THINK, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless, of course he is of the Wheatstone Bridgedouble differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want...
...encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C-(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Is that so much...
...Donald Carswell '50 went farther. Inspired by the most noble spirit of giving, he tried to outline a few ways to make this time easier for all of us. His advice piece, "Beating the System," won the Dana Reed Prize in 1951 for excellence in undergraduate writing. The Crimson proudly ran this piece at the beginning of every exam period until 1962, when one grader felt obliged to respond...