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Graham added that the Ed School received another grant this fall from the federal government to research how students react to computers in the classroom...
...Goddard talked of some day reaching the moon with a new breed of multistage rockets powered by liquid fuel, an editorial in the New York Times noted sarcastically that Goddard didn't know that a rocket had "to have something better than a vacuum against which to react...
...strike a balance between immediate and farsighted service. That means members (volunteer or otherwise) must communicate frequently with the students they represent. A Crimson poll last spring found that only one-third of undergraduates had ever discussed council matters or college policy with their representatives. The council can only react to student grievances through frequent communication, which can identify complaints from repeated fire alarms to erratic shuttle bus service. Another way for the council to affect both current and future student life is to dispense with procedural concerns, which last year consumed a sizable chunk of meetings and produced...
...that is sometimes difficult to explain. Thoreau wrote, "It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or a dog than to any human being." Sometimes the love of animals bespeaks an incapacity for the more complicated business of loving people; mental patients who react to other humans with fear and loathing can develop calm, tender relationships with puppies. Animals are usually perfectly themselves, not the elaborately perverse psychological mysteries that people seem to become. Animals, if not rabid, have a certain emotional reliability. But being on the side of the animals does not always make...
...turned out to be his last presidential address, "Many of our young people have been left with the notion that the highest values within the political and economic struggle can be attained primarily through protest, pickets, boycotts and civil disobedience. I admit with you that it is better to react peacefully against the evil forces of our system than to seek to attain by force and violence the rights to which we are entitled...