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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admissability of hearsay evidence in CRR hearings forms the greatest potential barrier to a fair hearing. Students left with no defense in the face of evidence that can now be produced without any satisfactory method of establishing its truth. Furthermore. The Faculty Council's action preserves an appeals system which only goes right back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abolish CRR | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

There is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is, by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it is pretty obvious that the vague generality is the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact, it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarrented assumption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beating the System | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

...novel's success is the fact that Birdy's desire never for an instant seems risible or even, after a while, particularly bizarre. Thoughts from the hero ("What I need is a tail") that could easily be howlers pass by with the equilibrium of logic and consistency. Method triumphs over madness. In alternating sections, Al reminisces aloud, as much to pass the time as to get through to his apparently oblivious friend, and then Birdy in turn thinks about his past. These two sets of memories are vectors to the present. The personalities of the two men dovetail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flights of Fact and Fancy | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...investments will be a method of getting an understanding of new technologies such as lasers and data processing and will also help us to make decisions on larger companies in the same field," Cabot said...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Harvard Plans $13 Million Investment In High-Risk, 'New Technology Areas' | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

...themselves off from mankind, but desire society's upheaval. They have found a purpose to life: "To change reality for everyone...everyone is (ought to be) what I am...to meld the real with mankind...there is only duty and that's to find the true course. Method: revolution...

Author: By Judy E. Matloff, | Title: Rebels Without A Cause | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

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