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...might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject--we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically...
...Palau Conservation Society, the archipelago's only homegrown non-governmental organization. He has traveled to Britain, Canada, Italy, the Solomon Islands and Fiji to study, but Idechong has never strayed too far from his village roots. Every time he begins a conservation program, his first instinct is to confer with the village elders. He is now starting to focus on ways of protecting the dugong (sea cow) and the hawksbill turtle, both of which are vulnerable to fishermen. He is optimistic because two decades of his campaigning have shown the majority of Palauans the logic behind conservation...
...Rawson has always remained loyal to Harvard since he first came here in 1941. Known simply as "Coach" at the MAC, he tries to confer some of his vast boxing wisdom upon the lucky Harvard students who get to train in his presence on the second floor...
...would like to confer an honorary Visual and Environmental Studies degree to Kenyon S. Weaver for his article "But is it Art?". His treatment of VES theses at Harvard sandwiched, just so, between two photographs of balloons shows a sophistication beyond Mr. Weaver's years...
Most of the district's schools have four middle school teachers, one for each of math, science, language arts and social studies. D'Alessandro said those teachers should have more time during the school week to confer about students' progress...