Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this paper, I examine one of Harvard's tiniest but most socially significant genres of literature: the plan file. To those of you unfamiliar with this academic field, please allow me to explain. When someone fingers your account on the Harvard UNIX server, the screen displays the last time and place that you logged on, as well as an optional message--the plan--that greets whoever is fingering you. Most often, these plan files are either blank or filled with a brief witty saying. It's not uncommon, however, to see plan files that push the very envelope...
...information will be withheld from students and the long-range potential will be to crimp scientific development.? There may be another casualty: the enlightening possibility of reconciling the two realms. Science and religion may observe the same phenomena, but they ask different questions of the world they seek to explain. Besides, if one reads the creation in Genesis closely, isn?t there both a theological and an evolutionary progression to the events there described...
Move on to Johnston Gate. Explain how you are only supposed to walk through it twice, once when you move in as a freshman, and once when you graduate. But wait...we just walked through it! Tell the story of Harvard Hall burning down, and how the president of the college expelled a student for saving the last book in the Harvard Hall collection. Next account for the world-renowned camaraderie of the Harvard community...
Neither the guard officials, Nash, or University officials were able to explain the disparity in the accounts of guards' fees for service that each has publicized...
...some of the CIA's most shadowy operations, including the agency's infamous mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s; in Washington, Va. Gottlieb once said the paucity of U.S. knowledge on the effect of drugs "posed a threat of the magnitude of national survival" to explain the existence of MK-Ultra, a program that mandated dosing unsuspecting citizens with...