Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ran across an article by Dean Ford in the Common Room, in a book called Examining in Harvard College. "At its best, the final examination both permits and requires the student to start using what he has learned in a given course by thinking and talking about it in the way we hope he will continue to think and talk about it for the rest of his life," says Ford. I am being both permitted and required to take my Soc Sci exam this Friday so I've been only half-awake all day. (Almost run over on Quincy Street...
Bruin Vic Boog will test Jim Smith in the mile. Smith ran a strong race against B.C. but is not noted for his consistency. If Hewlett runs the two-mile, he should win it, but if Walt stays out, Bob Rothenberg will give Brown the first place...
...about 2980 B.C., but Imhotep was its architect. And because it is the oldest stone pyramid, the Egyptians have credited Imhotep with inventing the art of building with cut stone. He was also Zoser's prime minister, a magician, sage, proverb maker, and patron of the scribes who ran the Egyptian bureaucracy. Century by century through Egypt's long history his reputation grew. During the Ptolemaic dynasty (323-30 B.C.), when Greeks ruled Egypt, he was identified with Asclepius, their mythical source of the healing arts; sick people limped to his shrines by the thousands to pray...
...only 1,500 arrived for work, so armadas of taxicabs had to be sent out through the streets of Cairo to pick up anything that moved on two feet. The bottom of Babel's tower was shot near Rome, where one genius in the makeup department ran around with cans of something called Clean Fly, which he sprayed on pale Italians to turn them brickbrown; these secret ingredients have worked-except when January winds sweep down from the north; then the extras have been registering blue...
Galt, the namesake of the club, is a fictional hero of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged who ran away from society to form his own "Utopia of Greed." Members of the Circle emphatically deny similar intentions, and said that the name was chosen because "Galt represents the principle of rational self-interest fundamental to objectivism...