Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST WEEK THE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD forced an elected student representative to resign from the Undergraduate Council. The student--an author of last spring's prank that caused the University computer system to print out "This computer test sucks" continuously during the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement test--is on disciplinary probation and is thus prohibited from participating in "extracurricular activities." However, applying that prohibition to the Undergraduate Council is innappropriate and sets a dangerous precedent...
...reluctant to play the Russian sage or the Slavic mystic. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky had those parts sewed up, and besides, Chekhov was offended by the pronouncements of those who felt above the battle. "All great wise men," he said, with the author of War and Peace in mind, "are as despotic as generals and as impolite and insensitive as generals because they are confident of their impunity...
...children. The family lived in Taganrog, a small port, a "deaf town," on the Sea of Azov, and as soon as they were able, the young Chekhovs were put to work in the unheated shop. On Sundays they were made to stand for hours in church. Wrote the author years later: "When I was a child I had no childhood...
...youthful Chekhov. He fell under the city's spell while attending medical school, where none of his fellow students connected him with "Antosha Chekhonte," the pseudonym under which he wrote comic stories. It was not until 1887, with the staging of his play Ivanov, that the public knew the author as A.P. Chekhov. Reviewers were generally hostile; "a flippantly cynical piece of foolishness, foul and immoral," said the man from the Muscovite Newssheet. But with the appearance of the story The Steppe in 1888, Chekhov was compared with Tolstoy and Gogol...
...page study, titled College: The Undergraduate Experience in America, draws on surveys of 5,000 college faculty, 4,500 undergraduates and 1,300 presidents and other administrators, as well as 1,200 high school students. The author, Carnegie President Ernest L. Boyer, points to the realities beneath such vocationalism: between now and 1990 there will be 12 million to 13 million jobs for some 15 million baccalaureate earners. The University of Illinois reports that only 19% of its humanities students have guaranteed jobs upon graduation, vs. 90% for business majors. Small wonder that according to U.S. Government statistics, bachelor...