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This missive is not, however, aimed at them. It would be wrong to direct concern about the increasingly precarious status of media and the increasingly marginal student interest in current affairs toward those who publish Harvard's daily, weeklies, journals, gazettes and magazines. For at least these students recognize on some level the value of such publications, spending many of their precious free hours toiling so that their words will see the light...
...wholesalers are required to publish their prices monthly, and are subsequently permitted to meet, but not beat, those of their competitors...
...Your instructors will see everything you write. Everybody is familiar with the sanitized, official jargon used by the nice people who publish the CUE Guide. If 90 percent of the students in a course complain that a professor didn't understand his material, this will be reported as "a significant percentage of students had some difficulty following the lectures," "Professor Quigley's last original thought came in the 1950's" becomes "while students applaud Professor Quigley's mastery of the history of his field, they long for the inclusion of more contemporary perspectives." And so on. But though the world...
...Witt acknowledged yesterday that time constraints were not the only factor affecting his decision not to publish the photos...
...James Conaway (Knopf; $60). This handsome volume commemorates the Smithsonian Institution's 150th anniversary. Ironically, the Smithsonian was founded with a financial gift from an Englishman who never set foot in the States. James Smithson was a noted mineralogist who, stung by the Royal Society's refusal to publish his scientific papers, bequeathed the U.S. government £100,000 to build "an Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge." Today its trove ranges from the Wright brothers' airplane to a prototype of the Apple personal computer...