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...modern home will remain video-game-console-free. My children sometimes ask when we will get a game machine (the answer remains never), but most of the time they're very busy reading, playing with friends or creating their own imaginary adventures out in the backyard. Philip F. Newman Franklin, Tennessee...
...this vernacular habit? Benjamin Franklin called it “modest diffidence,” advising orators to avoid “the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion; but rather say, I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken.” A spoonful of humility, Franklin argued, helps the assertion go down...
Before Russert took the podium, First Marshall Caleb I. Franklin ’05 addressed the crowd of, as he put it, “friends, foes, family, and greasy underclassmen who should have gone home...
...keeping with the tongue-in-cheek tone of the overall ceremonies, Franklin bid a final farewell to his classmates. “I’d like to ask everyone to keep Harvard in their hearts, because the Harvard Fund will keep you in their hands,” he said...
Harvard ID numbers are issued to all students, faculty, administrators, and support staff and are supposed to be treated as confidential information, according to Franklin M. Steen, Director of Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS...