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This is understandable: freshmen are not yet members of departments. Just as professors tend to devote more attention to graduate students than to undergraduates, feeling them to have demonstrated more devotion to their specific academic pursuits, so they devote more time to upperclassmen in advanced research than to freshmen in...
Many transfers were active in their old schools; but most, faced with only two or three years instead of four in which to fulfill departmental and general education requirements, devote their full energies to their studies and to trying to feel at home in a community that they perceive as...
The Government had argued that the purpose of the law was to provide an income to women who could not provide for themselves because of economic discrimination. The Justices countered by pointing out that Congress had intended the law to allow women to choose not to work and devote themselves...
Given this situation, she says, there is no reason why every kind of woman should not find satisfaction in volunteer work. And once the "helping others" argument has been disposed of--by quoting Derek Bok's 1972 speech to the incoming class (people should "devote [their] talents and energies in...
Original Sin. Enderby's chief drawback was not digestion but want of genius. Burgess can convincingly describe ways in which images might come to a kind of colloidal suspension in the expectant poet's mind. But when he had to cut the cackle and produce the egg, both...