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That’s the secret, really. Don’t write out “TIME!!!” in inch-high scrawl—it only brings out the sadist in us. Don’t (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks—we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably...
...actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject very will might mean something to the grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
...generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything at all. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...
...author’s notes section of Firehouse, Halberstam writes that he felt it his journalistic duty to write the book, given his close ties to the incident...
...same time, in order to receive honors, more stringent requirements and higher grading standards should be instituted in all departments for thesis level work. But all students who successfully write a quality thesis should receive honors, not just those with top GPAs. These students have satisfied the honors requirements for their departments, and they therefore deserve honors diplomas. As the Faculty Council’s report says, the Faculty has “historically assumed that honors are something of which all of our students are capable and to which all of them should aspire. We have tended, therefore...