Word: speciousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council's plan may be severely flawed, but administrators' arguments against it are equally specious. President Rudenstine claims that having exams before break would be an academically inferior situation. Professors, he claims, would be more hesitant to assign challenging assignments and papers without a longer reading period...
...indelible part of our culture, and as an act still in many ways symbolic--it makes no sense to expect to eliminate it by legislating it out of existence. While outlawing cigarettes in our workplaces and restaurants may make the air in some areas cleaner, and play to specious claims about the dangers of second-hand smoke, it also makes tobacco more mysterious, more difficult to obtain, and makes smoking even more of a symbolic act. Suddenly those secret puffs become not just a brief escape into adulthood, but, more significantly, an act of rebellion...
...point in my rehashing the arguments over whether or not linguistics is an autonomous discipline and whether or not the Harvard Linguistics Departments is up to snuff. Most of the arguments for eliminating the Linguistics Department, such as the supposed "tremendous linguistic strengths" in other departments, are completely specious...
True, this restriction slightly differs from other interhouse restrictions in that it singles out the students of 29 Garden St. But what the staff overlooks in its specious Weld analogy is that no kid in his right mind would stroll up across Cambridge Common in the driving sleet at 7 a.m. just to get Currier's waffles. Show me a Yardling who voluntarily dines at the Quad and I'll show you an admissions mistake...
...statement, Walton defended her decision to go public with allegations about the specious interview. She said WAC "merely wanted to responded to an incident and thought it worthy of public attention...