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...only is the requirement, as you admitted, "not particularly arduous;" those who will be affected by it have been fully informed in advance...
Although ill-conceived and unnecessarily exclusive, the Government restrictions were not particularly arduous. This spring, however, the English department has decided to follow suit, instituting a set of honors requirements that make Government look like the Great Undiscovered Gut Concentration...
...authors of theses. Why is a thesis writer who has taken undergraduate-level classes only, many of them guts or courses whose material overlaps with other classes they have taken, any more deserving of the "honors" appellation than a non-thesis student who has taken graduate seminars and arduous conference courses? We all know that large disparities of difficulty exist among Faculty of Arts and Sciences classes. If I took Moral Reasoning with Professor Stanley H. "No Class Is Good Without 1000 Pages Per Week" Hoffmann but decide not to write a thesis, should I be less "honored" than...
...retain their beauty, whether because of physical setbacks or misuse. Marilyn Horne, 57, has lost none of her taste or technique, but the nap is off that mezzo velvet. Hildegard Behrens, 54, an inspired dramatic actress, is now far easier to look at than listen to in the arduous roles she favors. A dozen years ago, handsome Peter Hofmann, 46, was a Wagnerian's dream of a heldentenor; today he mostly sings...
...benefit from the educational presentations the members have found enlightening, would be the best way to ensure that Harvard students can cast a watchful eye over the committee's procedures. We do not ask for a large, unwieldy public forum in which students could slow down the arduous process of policymaking by speaking up on every detail. But all members of the Harvard community who will be affected by these policies should at least be witness to the making of a policy which should be important to them...