Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspect the Indy's numbers are close to correct, because they line up with my experience. How many Harvard students have engaged in dialogue like this: "Where do you go to school? "Massachusetts," "Boston," "Cambridge." And when the H-word is finally dropped, it often has as devastating an effect on the conversation as dropping the H-bomb...
Indeed, what inspired Tenner to write the book was his observation 10 years ago that the personal computer, then heralded as the cornerstone of a tidy, eco-correct "paperless office" of the future, was creating more paper, not less. Nowadays, of course, with the Internet pouring ever more information into our lives and our printers, the paper-strewn paperless office seems less like a paradox than a fact of life...
Goetz lived only one stop away from me, and for the past 10 years I rode uptown knowing that theoretically I could, without realizing whom I was talking to, ask a fellow passenger for the correct time and get three in the back for my trouble...
...perhaps there is something more fundamental to be had from a "great books" curriculum. Perhaps by instituting it, Harvard would be bequeathing American society a humane citizenry. Whether or not it is politically correct to say so, the Western Canon has the potential to infuse the character with a special timbre. It beautifies the mind and exposes the student who plumbs it to a world of majestic and ennobling thoughts and emotions. It is a world that I am only just becoming acquainted with, but I am happily addicted...
...writing to correct the inaccurate headline and story which appeared on April 23 announcing "PBHA Funding Reduced: President's Grant Amount Lessened...