Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's function is to teach. And her greatness lies in the quality of her teaching and the ability and diversity of her students. Diversity by itself is only diversity. It is not good, it is not bad. At a place like Harvard, diversity at the expense of academic and intellectual ability and preparation is bad...
There has always been bad writing in this country, sensational and self-indulgent writing, full of topical delusions and crudities, though sometimes it has been valuable as a tonic and revelation to the best writers. Still, why is there in America today the oppressive sense that the art of writing has degenerated, slackened, been standardized and cheapened? The question has been voiced before, and it has been valid before, but there is a special urgency in it today...
...jokes about bad scholarly prose,6 the subject is not really funny. When citizens who are paid to think do not adequately share those thoughts with others, everyone loses. Scholars grow more isolated and the public more puzzled and hostile to their efforts. Discoveries in some fields, especially in the sciences, will always be too hermetic to become common knowledge overnight. But simple prose could clear up much mis understanding. The task may be impossible; Van Leunen shows how it could be done...
Harvard has an early chance to redeem itself this Tuesday against Brandeis which finished second in the New England Women's tournament last year. After all, 9-1 doesn't sound all that bad...
...thought it was an alarm clock. It wasn't too bad since we only had to stay outside about 10-15 minutes," Keith Laskin '79, a Dunster House resident, said yesterday...