Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard and BU are concerned, let me speak first not as an expert, but as an observer of Harvard University. We played them earlier in the year. I fully agree with [Harvard coach Ronn Tomassoni's] assessment of his own club. When we played them earlier, it was certainly not a 5-1 game. I can remember I saw [Harvard athletic director Bill Cleary] two days later and I said, 'Boy, that club is going to be real good the second half of the year.' Because they're solid in goal, their experienced and talented defense will hold them...
Professor of Law Duncan M. Kennedy '64, an expert in housing law and policy, is one of the area's few academics following the issue closely...
...spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom. --Donald Carswell '50 This piece first ran on June...