Word: reade
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...pages of text, there is certainly no need to read the footnotes: the book itself is an extended citation of Leibowitz's Ph.D coursework...
...door distribution to all students. It can be assumed that most of the people who would take a Perspective out of a rack would already be sympathetic to our goals and ideas. For our purposes, this preaching to the converted has much less value than when less sympathetic people read a Perspective because we made the effort to bring it to their door. If we wanted merely to preach to liberals, we might as well curtail our Eliot House distribution and plow the surplus into Adams House. A similar kind of reasoning applies all the more to the conservative Salient...
This letter is addressed specifically to all those house masters and superintendents who have perceived a problem with the door-dropping of various materials to their houses, but I hope all of you will read it. I sympathize with the occasional little problem that affects the houses as it would affect any college dormitory at any college, and appreciate that it takes clean-up time and money. Forbidding door-delivery of free materials, however, is a drastic and unnecessary step that offers little gain for the houses involved while depriving students of ideas and information and threatening the financial viability...
...advantage over publications like the Square Deal. We can deliver Harvard; outsiders can't. Advertisers know that free publications must either be passed out individually by hand (like the Square Deal) or delivered to the doors of people's residences (like the Cambridge Tab) if they are to be read at all. Busy Harvard students--like most people--rarely spend the effort to pick up and take to their rooms publications that were lumped in a grubby pile, as bundles and bundles of unread Campus Calendars and Boston After Darks attest. All the major free publications on campus, including...
ANYONE who was alive and breathing at Harvard last year must have been surprised to read the Undergraduate Council's self-promotional statement in Monday's Crimson. In a paid, full-page appeal for candidates to run in the upcoming council elections, the council bragged about a long litany of accomplishments, including sponsoring "two well-attended concerts," and "[saving] senior hourlies from an attempt to eliminate them...