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...have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember there is a person, a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does that person want to read? How, in a word, can the grader be snowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Grader's 1962 Reply | 8/17/1993 | See Source »

...river view is a priceless asset, or so the residents of Davenport, Iowa, believed. Now, however, they are realizing that their postcard vistas came at a price. Two weeks ago, the town, which had chosen not to build a levee, was swamped by millions of gallons of murky water. Yet while Davenport flooded, the business district of nearby Rock Island, Illinois, barely got its feet wet. Reason: in 1971 Rock Island decided to build a rock-and-clay floodwall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Levees: Do They Work Too Well? | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

After all, the beautiful old buildings of the postcard Harvard that tourists ooh and aah at in the Yard crumble, age and become outdated in the real world...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: The Facelift of the Yard | 6/29/1993 | See Source »

...wanted the postcard Harvard," says Queen. "Instead, he got the real Harvard...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: The Facelift of the Yard | 6/29/1993 | See Source »

...whatever you do, don't forget to send Grandpa Bob a postcard...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: It's The City, It's Summer, and... | 6/25/1993 | See Source »

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