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James Cuno: Museums are the product of an Enlightenment impulse to collect and categorize examples of knowledge, whether scientific or artistic. The initial modern museums appear in that age—like the British Museum in the mid-18th century, which was concerned with culture broadly stated, not just with art. The art museums of the French Revolution made available aristocratic collections to the people. During the 19th century, nations felt compelled to do so and developed the resources to do so. As museums developed, institutions of patronage broke down. In their place develop private galleries and individual bourgeois patrons...
Lewis has rightly recognized that the Ad Board cannot properly investigate essentially criminal allegations. It is only really capable of effectively handling problems like study card extensions, plagiarism and party violations. When it comes to rape, Lewis is right: The Ad Board can neither issue subpoenas nor collect rape kits. But, if Lewis is going to encourage more women to take their sexual assault cases to court—as he says he will—then he must provide support for women who choose...
...because more people split one bill. Students who live in singles could be paying five times as much for their phone service as each of the neighbors in a nearby five-person sweet. Additionally, by including the costs in termbills, the telephone office will be far more likely to collect the payments successfully. Currently, both because of inefficient account management and student delinquency, HSTO spends much time and money pursuing a number of students who owe hefty balances. Of course, students (and their parents) ought to know how much they are paying for phone service, and it should be enumerated...
...this summer, Mason said the center plans to have a Cambridge-based facility that would collect and test human DNA up and running...
...effort to actually collect fines, they also plan to start immobilizing illegally parked cars until drivers call in to pay their fine and have the devices removed, Shortell said...