Word: referred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing to correct some misinformation that was printed in your article about freshman housing (News, Nov. 2). In the article, you refer to the "skewed racial distribution" of one of the rooming groups in my part of the Yard (Weld Hall, Matthews Hall, and Canaday Hall), in which you inaccurately state that "four of the six women [in the room] are black...
...where most people consider "he" and "she" to be equal--as people, at least. As a pronoun, however, "she" still hits the grammatical glass ceiling while "he" runs rampant, masquerading as a "gender-unspecific pronoun" that represents both men and women. But the supposition that "he" or "his" may refer to both sexes is ludicrous, since study after study has shown that people of both sexes take this pronoun to refer exclusively to a male. The elusive "gender unspecific pronoun" represents a gap between the rules of grammar and the rules of society that students and academics constantly face...
...answers belong in the blue book. Students should refrain from using their neighbor's body for assistance, except in the case of question 7. Points are redeemable for tawdry thrills, decades of procrastination, and gratuitous ego expansion. Refer to accompanying pictures for assistance...
...Refer to taxidermy bills as "a necessary medical expense" or "contributions to wildlife preservation...
...century, is there such an incessantly growing literature on "the end of the age of the nation-state"? Why would Nelson Mandela pay tribute to Harvard, not as an American institution, but as one which "sees the world as its stage"? Why would he refer to himself more often as an African than as a South African? And why (on an infinitely more humble scale) would someone who had every opportunity to have the provincialism wrung out of him by Harvard, come back here thirty years later as an unabashed loyalist of the Rocky Mountain West? The answers...