Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...printed a front page story on Saturday April 20 about protest activities at other campuses. Why no mention of tat day's conference at Harvard? Isn't Harvard an institution dedicated to education? What about some space on serious efforts to educate students and discuss in a meaningful manner the implications involved in an issue of international concern...
First of all, I don't accept your premise. There is skepticism about the press just as there is skepticism about lawyers, politicians, even some members of the clergy. We are a better educated people today. We have the benefit of all manner of muckraking available to us. We are as partisan today as we have been in recent history, but at the same time, what's the most popular broadcast on the air? The evening news...
...women whose literary bones I disturbed after they had slumbered peacefully for some two hundred years..." In a sense, Lonsdale has no business indulging in such heroic exhuming. Although the minor poems he has uncovered are valuable for historical documentation, they cannot hope to impress in the manner of Pope's heroic couplets or Johnson's manly verse. Yet literature never adapts itself to such hierarchical thinking, and one of the virtues of Lonsdale's book is that it is broad enough to grant the reader his or her whims. Taste can be a most esoteric beast, and just what...
...most professors, lecturing requires much knowledge and a fair amount of organization but other wise proceeds intuitively with little conscious thought about how students actually learn. The same is even true of many seminars and tutorials. The task of designing educational software, however, cannot go forward in this manner. Every step of the process must proceed with a careful eye to its effect on the student of the program will not work...
...Corporation's argument for their proposal sounds familiar today: "Mechanical divestment offers Harvard no positive levers to influence banks to lend in a socially responsible manner...It is a costly means of expressing our disapproval...