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Why does each class appear statistically like the one ahead of it, if "quotas" are not used? There seem to be two answers. First, each man on the admissions committee feels in his own mind that a "good mix" is a necessary thing for Harvard College. If the admissions committee...
The artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the age he lived in?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not...
Every non-mathematical field in the university has its own set of generalities. For instance:
THE COURSE ASSISTANT. It was Bunny Largess. Visiting Professor of Half-Truths, who formulated the now-famous rule on " choosing a course assistant. " In Bunny's own words. " Make sure he is cruder, more reactionary, and basically less pleasant than even you are. Then give him a free hand. " It...
Kennaway's view of life itself is crabbed: the cost of living like this, he suggests, is dying like that. Within its own well-blinkered range, the view is coldly accurate, a gloomy midpoint assessment by a gifted 40-year-old Scots writer (one of whose notable early accomplishments...