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β§ Edward Bouchet β§
Edward Bouchet (1852β1918) was an American physicist and educator. He was the first African American to earn a PhD from an American university, completing his dissertation in physics at Yale University in 1876. Bouchet had become one of the first African Americans to graduate from Yale College in 1874. On the basis of his acad...
#PhiBetaKappa #YaleUniversity #YaleCollege #Yale #Bouchet #Wikipedia
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> Language is not something we can disembody; it is an ethical as well as a mechanical entity, inextricably bound up in ourselves, our posiitions, and our relations with those around us.
https://archive.org/details/sim_fortune_1950-11_42_5
#FortuneMagazine's #1950 #LanguageOfBusiness article was quoted by #JacquesBarzun in "The Retort Circumstantial" in #TheAmericanScholar #PhiBetaKappa. It makes me think of machine-generated text, the recent #ChatGPT discussions