Word: invalidism
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Students will forget many of the facts that they are taught, and new developments will make much of what is imparted today invalid in years hence. I think we might all agree without protracted discussion that an understanding of the value and uses of intellect is essential for an educated person. But the question is: how are "arts and habits" inculcated in a most efficient and lasting manner? Not by a one-sided or specialized curriculum alone, nor by a system of general education that is unfocused and relatively unstructured...
...regulations are stricter than most. Would-be candidates need signatures from 3 per cent of the number that voted in the last election, which this year meant over 39,000, compared to the 1000 they need in New Hampshire. Given that fact that some signatures will always be invalid for one reason or another--the most common one being that voters think they are registered and aren't--opposition parties have to collect many more than that, and even then may not get on the ballot...
...makes it illegal to be a member of the Communist Party, much less run for office. Signature collectors were harrassed and beaten up on street corners, he says, and having the state reject their petitions made it even harder to take. The Communists had checked the petitions themselves for invalid signatures as best they could, and Halfkenny suggests the state went out of its way to invalidate their right to run their candidates...
McCarthy is on the ballot in 19 states, since New York--the 20th--decided last week his petition to be on the ballot there was invalid. He is running with a different vice presidential candidate in each state, largely because he had not fixed on any one candidate when the time to submit names for the ballot came around this summer. Should he be elected president, he says, he will let the electoral college decide on the vice president...
...difficulties raised by the mailing, which The Crimson revealed last fall, aroused representatives of Harvard's libraries, who feared that invalid cards would be used to remove books fraudulently. In his appeal document, Brown-Beasley wrote, "As an irreligious (negligent, careless, indifferent, lax) person as far as the bulk of your responsibilities in Fiscal Services goes, you've most likely never asked anyone at the libraries just what that particular irreligiosity...is going to cost us, but I did ask. And do you know what I was told? It will be years before the full impact can be assessed...