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LAST but not least, a sincere commitment to openness involves listening to students and (here's the hard part) acting on student demands. It is absurd that members of the Corporation--which meets every two weeks--refuse to meet regularly with undergraduates. If they did, students could make clear the need...
HARVARD'S focus on the bottom line reached symbolic and absurd proportions when control over Sanders Theater shifted from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to Harvard Real Estate (HRE) two years ago. HRE administrators pledged to make Sanders competetive with Boston concert areas. The result for student groups was felt this year: tripled rent, no guarantee for performing dates and required purchase of unnecessary services. Students were being chased out of the only large performance space on campus...
Their opponents accused them of hypocrisy; if their egalitarian argument were taken to its logical extreme, they would also have to advocate women's suffrage, which was at the time considered absurd...
CARSWELL'S further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...