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Designed to "help students write correct and effective English by presenting the fundamentals of orderly discourse and rhetoric," Harvard's only required course, Expository Writing 10hf is an unsolicited and painful addendum to most Freshmen schedules. Papers are usually submitted after hectic all-nighters (first semester) or two weeks late (second semester), a few books are discussed, but there's little reason to believe that the average freshman emerges with new confidence in his ability to organize a coherent exam essay...
...Mars Manufacturing Co., topped that by selling 100,000 personality and psychedelic wall posters (at $1 each). At a higher level, the company sold 105,000 youth air-fare identification cards for American Airlines-and kept $2 of the $3 price of each card for its effort. To help manufacturers boost sales of everyday products, N.S.M.C. "reps" place soft-sell posters on strategically located bulletin boards. In one such campaign, Alka-Seltzer offered to send a "cramming pillow-it allows you to cram effortlessly until the wee hours" to anybody who sent...
More importantly, the disguising of the police can only serve to create mistrust and suspicion between people. And this cannot be justified solely by the argument that plainclothesman help to catch lawbreakers. Law enforcement must always serve the law itself, and the ultimate purpose of the law should be to promote security and cohesion between all members of society...
...disguises in law enforcement cannot help but compromise the very spirit of the law. This should be carefully considered before the use of plainclothesmen becomes so routine that it is no longer even seen as an issue in America...
Recommendations from summer school faculty members could help to get interested students into good graduate schools, he added...