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Each Eliot resident was issued a magnetically coded card. When the card is placed in the reader located next to the door, the magnetic code is signaled to a computer memory unit in the chilled water plant north of the Yard. If the card's code matches one on record in the memory unit, the door is automatically unlocked. If a card is lost, its code can simply be erased from the memory unit and it will no longer open the door...
...subjectively grading honors theses in English, maintaining that it is nearly impossible to accurately judge the quality of a literary work. This logic seems to be borne out in the English Department. According to sources in the Department, there have been at least three theses for which one reader gave some form of summa and the other reader marked it with some degree...
Read's Heathcliff is not a stableboy but a contemporary Yorkshire parson's son who sulks because God did not make him an aristocrat. At times, an American reader is hard put to take Hil ary Fletcher's miseries as solemnly as he does himself- even if one grants that a second-rate British public school is "worse than prison" and that hell knows no torment like an Englishman at the hunt ball whose jacket fails to fit. Alas, The Upstart stipulates that exactly this sort of class embarrassment can still drive a dated Angry Young...
Read has his reward. Cleverer, subtler novels read like a dream-and are just as instantly forgotten. The Upstart reads, at moments, like a near parody. But it impresses on a reader's mind, as sharply as a medieval block print, the shape of the author's conscience...
Plainly, Au. is a fool. He jabbers incessantly about the tea served at his interviews; his temperature is raised by the sight of nuns; he press-gangs the reader into exhausting patrols in search of useless facts. Basically, he is a garbage collector who has found "an occupation that serves the purposes of cleanliness but is regarded as dirty...