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Math 105, which usually follows Math 2, is much more difficult than the latter course, and many Math majors are led astray by initial successes...
...basic freedoms: "Let's not confuse civil liberties with silly liberties. Don't be led astray by that hackneyed phrase, academic freedom. Be realistic...
Many a publisher of books and booklets on atomic survival was gaily leading the citizen astray also. One advises shaving cats & dogs to prevent their fur from becoming radioactive; another advises the citizen to throw his money and jewelry away to avoid added problems if it should become contaminated.The most dangerous suggestion: that atomic burns be covered with vaseline or some patent anti-atomic ointment (recommended treatment-covering burns with only a sterile bandage until a doctor arrives...
Those that count correctly, he emphasizes, experience a "fierce muscular exortion." It's easier to be led astray, he concludes...
...Social Relations 1a annual talk, Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology, specializes on thousands of people who were led astray. For one hour, he plays a recording of Orson Welles' famous 1989 broadcast "War Between the Worlds", which simulated as on-the-spot news story of the invasion of Earth by Mars. Part of the next hour he spends explaining why the program caused panic, riots, and evacuation of cities when first heard in this country as that October night...