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Designed to "help students write correct and effective English by presenting the fundamentals of orderly discourse and rhetoric," Harvard's only required course, Expository Writing 10hf is an unsolicited and painful addendum to most Freshmen schedules. Papers are usually submitted after hectic all-nighters (first semester) or two weeks late (second semester), a few books are discussed, but there's little reason to believe that the average freshman emerges with new confidence in his ability to organize a coherent exam essay...
Figuring that someone had stolen it and gotten stuck with it, the Harvard senior who placed this ad hoped that the captors of the lbis would be glad to get rid of it. He was apparently correct, for shortly thereafter a large white package, tied with heavy string was left for him at the Crimson...
...trying to measure what the public wants, the pollsters argue that a wise politician can trust his own instincts about 75% of the time, but a sound poll will give him a correct reading 90% of the time. That makes a 10% margin of error-and there is no guarantee that, in fact, the margin is not apt to be much larger. Thus the powerful polls can help democracy triumph, or at least muddle through-as long as the politicians and the public remember the margin of error and refuse to be hypnotized by the augurs...
...advice has not helped much. One does not have to be an astrological authority to be correct 25% of the time when the choices are among only four elements. And once the element is established, the panels should bat at least .333 in guessing the sign. Yet often as not, particularly with the elements, all the panelists have guessed wrong. They missed Jack Benny (Air), Robert Goulet (Fire), Carol Lawrence (Earth), and Ed Sullivan's wife Sylvia (Fire). But all the experts did guess Sullivan's element last week. He is Air. So is the show...
...needed four operations to correct what trainer Jack Fadden termed "one of the worst breaks I've ever seen." The surgery weakened his leg, however, and as a result, he suffered an ulceration in pre-season practice as a sophomore. He was forced to sit out the season...