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...within its ranks and intolerant of those who voice unpopular or controversial views. Members of the Mexican-American student group sometimes stop talking to dissenters and instead talk about them in widespread innuendo. As surely as if it were coming from a group of children on a playground, this sort of collective tantrum is intended to show that the organization will "play no more" with those who rock the communal boat. It also aims to make campus life uncomfortable for others who are content with the racial status...
Once entrenched in a department, senior faculty can block the appointments of younger scholars for 30 to 40 years, producing the sort of academic stagnation that can be found in the senior ranks of several Harvard departments. Tenure is so effective at shunting off younger academics that tenured faculty make up two-thirds of all full-time college instructors nationwide...
Such beliefs amongst his housemates are utterlyuntrue, says Michael Raynor '90: "You have toexpect that sort of misunderstanding from a housefull of people who see him around but never reallyget to know him. I meet people who adore him andothers who know him less well and wonder why hehas a special place...
...mind, Holmes told Watson, is like an attic. "You have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out." Holmes stocked his own mental attic with a detailed knowledge of chemistry and cigar ashes. Knowing about cigars helped him solve The Boscombe Valley Mystery...
Holmes believed in a sort of Doctrine of Discriminating Obliviousness. He professed ignorance of the Copernican design of the solar system. "What the deuce is it to me?" he asked. "You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work...