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After my first post for the Most Honorable Legion, I feel I should introduce myself briefly. Foremost, despite sharing the surname Nelson with that other contributor I’m sure you all know, I am not one...
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Biomimicry
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part, in his own ink. John Ray (1627 – 1705), naturalist As cited in: Steven Lukes, Power: A...
View ArticleI believe this makes the first Nobel laureate–
–to employ the use of a LOLcat. That is all.
View ArticleHe Swears
Every so often he swears to start a finer life. But when night comes with its own counsels, its compromises, and its promises; but when night comes with its own vigor of the body, craving and seeking,...
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“Punning is an Art of Harmonious Jingling upon Words, which passing in at the Ears and falling upon the Diaphragma, excites a titillary Motion in those Parts, and this being convey’d by the Animal...
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The love of pleasure is commonly in young persons, too strong to be controlled by the love of knowledge, or by the remote prospect of professional success. Nay, even the principle of duty too...
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Abolish the Hoopes Prize, Harvard. “A system of this sort is liable to the vice of substituting the love of the reward for the love of that for which the reward is conferred; to induce study for the...
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I see in the Crimson this morning that BGLTSA has sloshed around its bowl of alphabet soup and come up with QSA—Queer Students and Allies—as their new name. This is in keeping with a larger trend...
View ArticleHARVARD NEEDS RICH KIDS
From the Inaugural Address of Charles William Eliot as President of Harvard College, Tuesday, October 19, 1869 Harvard needs poor students: “The poverty of scholars is of inestimable worth in this...
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