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Hey girl, are you an academic journal because you’ve ignored me for 8 months then devastated me with your feedback
OTD, 1917, women suffrage workers marched in a New York parade; joined by wartime mothers, they knocked on doors reminding citizens of the women's patriotic war efforts and reminding men to vote for suffrage in the upcoming referedum.
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In a normal society, this would be called the English department, but since English departments no longer teach literature, we now need a separate department to teach the Great Books.
You can't make this stuff up.
Some higher-ed good news: Clemson is launching a new department based on the Great Books, with up to 120 scholarships a year and a Socratic tutor for each student. C. Bradley Thompson reports on The Lyceum—and on profs putting teaching first again: city-journal.org/article/cle…
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i had a professor in undergrad who would brutalize your papers, often with a red pen for its obvious affective function, but it was always to the betterment of your essay! and as i’m grading now i really want to do that but i understand that im not the main grader rn
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I'd dissuade people from getting a BA but certainly not a funded PhD in the humanities. I would (and have) suggested planning a career path that isn't academia though
OTD, 1918. From: The Alexandria Times-Tribune. (November 2, 1918). . Newspapers.com. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from newspapers.com/article/the-a…
OTD, 1961, Women Strike for Peace organized a 50,000-person strong march in Washington, DC to protest against nuclear weapons.
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Remembering Nurse Gertrude Roskell, Voluntary Aid Detachment, died from appendicitis on the 31st October 1915 aged 36. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW1 #nurses
