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...accounting if you’ve first taken Ec 10 and 1010 from us,” says Miron. “And so it’s a much better use of your time from every perspective, from both the pre-professional’s perspective and an intellectual??s perspective, to study the courses that we do offer, not the strictly business-oriented courses...
...hosts, in a manner similar to presidential candidates. But one of the audience members, Sanjida Rahman ’10, said she was surprised by how different the debate was from what she sees between the presidential candidates. Both the questions and the answers were “more intellectual?? than those in the three fall presidential debates, Rahman said. For example, Hoffman quoted Hamlet, saying, “Conscience does make cowards of us all,” while discussing tax policy. Each debater was given two minutes to answer questions that ranged from whether proceedings...
...Dylan record until he reached his 20s, so there may yet be hope for Joyce-loving English concentrators with quaintly archaic tastes in music to make some sort of a living out of their skills. It will take a populist’s appreciation for the common man, an intellectual??s pure curiosity, a sentimentalist’s attachment to useless artifacts, and an epic poet’s literary stamina, but Ross has both paved the way and set the standard. The rest is up to you.—Staff writer Jillian J. Goodman...
...flipside, the intellectual??s status as an endangered species is also caused by a sort of leisure class mania. In this atmosphere of intense competition, the college admissions game has been transformed into an industry. Students are sent off to preparatory programs, and their parents drop thousands of dollars on private SAT tutors and college consultants. Ivywise, a New York-based college consulting firm, charges anywhere from $1,000 for a one-time consultation to $30,000 for a two-year 100-hour program. The company promises pleasing results: 75 percent of its clients go on to attend...
...suspect that the motivation [for entrants] will be intellectual??people really have strong feelings on the subject,” Schachter wrote, “and a little careerist—wouldn’t it be great to get a piece published in The New York Times Magazine as an undergrad...