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...important respects, an education in physics is founded on the use of the Bunsen burner. Concentrators learn a great deal from the heating experience and contact between the open flame and the experimental materials, complementing the experience of problem sets and other laboratory work. Harvard does not admit physics undergraduates without the understanding that Bunsen burners will be an integral aspect of their education...
...current department name, but the language. This may appear insignificant, but there are larger principles at stake here. Without precision, language loses its meaning. In his famous essay, Politics and the English Language, George Orwell commented that a lack of carefully chosen diction and imagery marked the fundamental problem with modern writing. By finding a name that more accurately represents its function, Harvard’s English department places itself at the forefront of the battle against careless usage. In addition, as E.B. White noted in The Elements of Style, “Vigorous writing is concise...
...Some don’t see a problem with that. Ellison, who as the secretary might be suspected of having a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, told The Crimson, “I’m not even sure that there will be recommendations for reform. I know that people feel like [the Ad Board] is broken...It’s not, but the information is not out there...
...better crowd control, to manage the media better, to try negotiation instead of knee-jerk repression. Some of the reasons are straightforward: the Communist Party is deeply secretive and highly bureaucratic, and its members are steeped in a longstanding culture of self- preservation. "Part of the head-in-sand problem has to do with entrenched bureaucratic interests," says sinologist Perry Link of Princeton University. "People who have devoted the last 25 years of their careers to 'opposing splittism' can't stop chanting that mantra without puzzlement over what to say instead and without a bit of panic about their...
...wireless problems go unresolved in areas, “it may be that they’re not calling us, which is part of the problem,” he said...