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West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who will deliver the afternoon commencement address, arrived at Harvard late last night, surrounded by secret service and area policemen, after a short trip to Washington D.C. and the University of South Carolina...
...dedication ceremony also displayed the callous disregard of opposing viewpoints to which many members of the University community have become accustomed of late. President Bok, in his refusal to address or even recognize the existence of the peaceful protestors who attended the opening, yet again demonstrated his unwillingness to confront the South Africa issue openly and forcefully. Meanwhile, the often crude and threatening efforts of Kennedy School administrators to deter the protestors from having their say--including their insistence that the demonstrators violated an "agreement" that never existed--reflects a frame of mind that values the forms of pomp...
...recent interview, President Bok said he wrote the letters, which "took an enoromous effort on top of everything else," to address the issues the community cares most about because it "deserves to hear the most thoughtful answers that I could give." Implicit in his remark is the assumption that all he owes the Harvard community is an explanation of his actions: we only need listen, he will provide the answers...
...Core is attempting to do is to define the most important elements of the liberal education, the most important intellectual skills and the most important ways and methods of apprehending the important areas of human experience, and make sure that everything in the Core is specifically designed to address one of those important goals, one important method of thought, one important intellectual skill. So that in that sense there's a greater emphasis on what we feel are the fundamentals of the foundation for further liberal arts learning, but I think that means something quite different than most people...
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who meets with President Carter today, will more than likely pick up one of the free sheepskins tomorrow when he delivers the Commencement address...