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Eliot put this directly into practice when he abolished most of the requirements for undergraduates. Emerson, as usual, put it best when he praised Eliot for resisting the one-size-fits-all policy: “there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind…to expedite…to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one?...
...faculty and the student council in which my father would defend his judgment and take questions. In advance of the discussion, he asked a department supervisor to post his original response to the course website, so that everyone could see it. “Don’t omit the last sentence,” he warned, “about ‘no fun.’” There are two stories here: one is about second chances, the other about the nature of university scandal. Harvard has had to think about both a fair deal...
...water. Douglass’s own studies found no connection between fluoride consumption and an increased likelihood of the cancer. While the panel of senior Harvard professors conducting the investigation did not take a position on the cancer link, they stated that Douglass “did not intentionally omit, misrepresent, or suppress” Bassin’s findings. Douglass also serves as the editor of a journal produced by fluoridated-toothpaste maker Colgate. But the Harvard investigators reported that Douglass’s involvement with Colgate did not violate federal guidelines. In addition, the investigators said...
...years later. Not everyone was so lucky. Four men recommended for peerages last year were blocked by the House of Lords Appointments Commission amid concerns that they had recently dipped into their pockets for Labour. One of the men, entrepreneur Sir Gulam Noon, claimed he had been encouraged to omit details of a $460,000 loan to the party from his application form. The police have indicated that they may quiz Blair in the course of their investigation. "This mess was inevitable," says Labour M.P. and former Europe Minister Denis MacShane. "The Tories had a deeper war chest...
...Similarly, in your discussion of Ashley Smith, you omit the fact that in addition to sharing insights from The Purpose-Driven Life with Atlanta courthouse murderer Brian Nichols, who took her hostage last year, she also gave him some of her methamphetamine. Isn't that exactly the kind of omission that you would attack a liberal reporter...