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...CRIMSON, however, has decided that these departments are right. Make this point clear, as the Thursday editorial did not: the CRIMSON not only admits the power of the departments--it believes they are right. Its proposal to allow departments to recommend for departmental honors without a thesis is superbly trivial: the issue behind CLGS is freedom from departments, not within them. It is the honored but apparently dispensable assumption that a Harvard student is old enough to decide what he will or won't, can or can't do. Cutting nine o'clock classes is a horrible temptation; ignoring reading...
...Radcliffe Administration cannot enforce regulations that a number of girls obviously consider trivial, it has no business asking students to do its dirty work. Similar reporting systems at Princeton and other colleges have only made students uncomfortable while failing to prevent violations. The only place double reporting seems to work is at West Point; it hardly seems likely Mrs. Elliot wants 'Cliffie cadets...
...they should at least be acknowledged; the reader who senses them is going to be distictly uncomfortable. Is it important to a cosmology that the natural constants remain constant? If so, why is it? If we can't decide whether it's crucial? why not? The questions are not trivial; the answers aren't obvious. Newman has begged them, then passed judgement on Eddington's contributions without indicating where he stands on the points of difference with other theories...
Ernest Simmons, formerly chairman of the department of Slavic languages and literature at Columbia University, suffers from the biographer's occupational disease -a constitutional inability to leave out any detail, however trivial. But his book does build to considerable power. Using new source material, Simmons demolishes Writer Lidiya Avilova's claim, put forth in her book Chekhov in My Life, that she was the writer's secret lifelong passion. Chekhov's only love. Simmons insists, was Olga Knipper, one of the first of a long series of famous actresses (including Dame Sybil Thorndike. Dame Judith Anderson...
Armpits & Armageddon. All this may seem trivial and inconsequential, like a parlor game in which people amuse themselves by swapping anecdotes about what they were doing when they got the news of Pearl Harbor. But the reader, seduced by the perfectly tailored prose and the quiet delight of well-mannered comedy, may be led to overlook the muscular structure of Powell's art. Nick Jenkins is no Prince Hamlet, but as an attendant lord he misses nothing; his eyebrows are often raised, never his voice. Human action, Powell seems to be saying, is of primary importance in itself...