Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begin with, I strongly urge the council to place the question of how to allocate the $40,000 before the student body in a referendum vote. Furthermore, as voter turnout in recent computerized council elections has been deplorable I urge the council to conduct the referendum by hand. Send representatives into dining halls. Place them in strategic locations in front of the Science Center and other academic buildings. Make them available to explain and answer questions about the various proposals. And most importantly, leave room for students to express their own ideas as to where the funds should be directed...
...reduced to rigid adjective plus subject plus verb formulations. "This is all part of a long-term approach to mind as machine," says David Schaafsma, professor of English education at Teachers College of Columbia University. "Writing is a human act, with aesthetic dimensions that computers can only begin to understand." The Kaplan course, a leader in test prep, has taken a more pragmatic approach: it has issued a list of strategies for "the age of the computerized essay." One of its tips: use transitional phrases like "therefore," and the computer just might think you're Dickens...
...horrifies Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy Tu Wei-Ming, who teaches Moral Reasoning 40, "Confucian Humanism: Self-Cultivation and Moral Community." Wei-Ming says his opposing outlook on the practice of speaking to a large crowd comes from his Chinese upbringing. "In America, a lecture or speech often begins with a joke," he says. "In Asia, normally, if there is a big audience, you begin with an apology. Self-praise is in poor form...
...feel like I've had fewer options because there are so few to begin with," she says. "There are limited choices, especially in history and literature when you have a period requirement to fulfill...
...feel like I've had fewer options because there are so few to begin with," she says. "There are limited choices, especially in history and literature when you have a period requirement to fulfill...