Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...houses are adjuncts of the College's educational commitment. Shouldn't breaking down stereotypes be an important element of this education? Let's quit pointing fingers and get on with our learning. The Resident Tutors of Kirkland House
There is in this a deplorable element that might be called adultification, in which a figure created for children is subjected to adult concerns, much as though Tom Sawyer or Alice in Wonderland were updated by being made to confront sexual problems. Yet despite the myriad changes in the legend, something strong and fundamental remains. DC Comics is delighted that its newest Superman has doubled sales, to 200,000, but that is a relatively paltry number compared with the millions who cherish an older image from their childhood...
...exaggeration and somewhat cavalier regard for reality that Mallon displays in Arts and Sciences help to brighten a novel with a potentially depressing theme. Mallon says his novel is "really intended as light entertainment." "There's a great element of silliness in the book," but that "does seem to go along with the territory...
...resisted installing lights. Last week, under pressure from Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Cubs, the city council voted 29 to 19 to allow the Cubs to play eight night games this season and 18 each year until 2002. Nearby residents contended that night baseball would bring an undesirable element into the area. But the Tribune Co. noted that night games would earn millions of dollars in additional television revenue. As an inducement, the Cubs won a bonus: baseball owners in West Palm Beach agreed to hold the 1990 All-Star game in Wrigley Field -- under the lights, of course...
While some professors, like Henry Rosovsky (the architect of the Core Curriculm), claim that there is no correlation between class size and educational quality, students do not have the freedom of choice to test that contention. The large size of the Core has become an inescapable element of Harvard's undergraduate education...