Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Henry Wechsler, a professor at the School ofPublic Health whose work on the subject Dean ofthe College Harry R. Lewis '68 calls"authoritative," is quick to point out thatHarvard students' drug use is slightly below thenational average...
Buried in books at the beginning of reading period, Harvard students may not even have noticed that the NBA wasn't playing, but some professors here have strong opinions on the subject. There is even a history class on professional athletics...
...before. In 1933 he published Paris at Night, a book that instantly secured his reputation and remains one of the milestone volumes of 20th century photography. A picture like L'Avenue de l'observatoire in Autumn is about nothing so much as just dark and light. Its unsentimental main "subject" is a car-headlight beam. A bit as Weegee did in New York City, Brassai hit below the beltways of Paris. What he liked best was what he found in the black sockets of the city, under the bridges and in the streets where hookers dangled their stuff and planted...
...various methods whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might very well mean something to a grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed...
Peter and I chose at that point to make his case a subject of clinical study in my Winter Evidence Class. The focus of this class in on how to prove things, the nature of truth, the role of law and communications in the process. I set about, with my class, exploring both facts and legal theories on which Peter could proceed. Our first objective was to conduct our own investigation sufficiently to warrant return with request for reconsideration to the Joint Committee, this time with sufficient muscle to induce the members of the committee to take our claim seriously...