Word: notes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more serious note, Broh said that the main reason for keeping with the traditional calender is that Princeton dorms are not air-conditioned. He said that if Princeton had early exams, the year would have to begin in the dog days of August, making for a most uncomfortable study environment...
Professors cite numerous reasons for their decisions to use their books for their classes. Some say they do it because students learn more when the text they read echoes and expands on the material covered in lecture. Others note that the `standard' texts for many academic disciplines are written by star scholars who teach at Harvard...
...researchers note that some sorts of asbestos are far more dangerous than others and that the safest type is used almost exclusively in U.S. buildings. The bottom line: the risk of dying from smoking, drowning, airplane crashes or even playing high school football is 100 to 1,000 times as great as the risk of dying from asbestos exposure in buildings. "We have known this for two years," complains Mossman, "yet I can still pick up a newspaper that says it's a problem...
...Benjamin Franklin Taylor caught both the metaphysics and, unintentionally, the comedy when he wrote this rhapsody to the phone: "The far is near. Our feeblest whispers fly/ Where cannon falter, thunders faint and die./ Your little song the telephone can float/ As free of fetters as a bluebird's note...
...week. Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, that is. You might notice upon arrival in Spence's plush University Hall corner office that he is unusually tan. And since we wouldn't want anyone to think that Spence had been going to a tanning salon or anything, we note that the dean was seen on a plane Tuesday. The plane took off from Florida, and the dean was on it--complete with unnatural winter skin coloring. It could not be confirmed whether Spence's trip had anything to do with fundraising...