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...such advice is cheap from an academic dynamo who wrote 183 pages for a 25-page joint essay for a Dostoevsky proseminar in the Slavic department and “Introduction to the Theory of Sexuality” (Lit 105) his freshman year. “I had been contemplating these questions over the course of the semester,” Holden says. “Basically, I sat down in the library [during spring reading period] and just kept going back to write more. Every page opened more questions.” With this kind of determination, it?...
...made an Assistant Professor. Since 1917 he has been an Associate Professor. Besides this book, Professor Copeland has written several articles in the Atlantic Monthly and "The Life of Edwin Booth", besides editing "The Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his Youngest Sister", with an introductory essay, in collaboration with Mr. Rideout on Tennyson's "The Princess...
...essay in Nature, titled “Is a scientific boycott ever justified?” the authors set out four conditions that must be satisfied before a scientific boycott can be permissable. Among the requirements are nearly-universal agreement on the need for action against a regime, a clear view of what actions could be prevented by such a boycott, and an explicit acknowledgement that a boycott would be an abandonment of one of the most cherished principles of science, its universality...
...boycotts of Israeli academics fulfill none of the goals laid out by the authors of the recent Nature essay. Indeed, the sharp disagreement on the war against terrorism that Israel is fighting belies the ulterior motives of those who wish to take the most extreme measures against it. Having been burned in the past by submitting to political pressures, most scientists see the recent boycott campaigns for what they are: crude anti-Semitic double standards that will only hurt scientific inquiry and academic freedom...
...obviously I don’t know which cliché is true, or which system preferable. In the best non-committal, four-in-the-morning essay style (some things all students have in common), I should probably conclude that both have their benefits. And whatever our flaws, no one can say that we don’t, well, offer great value for money...