Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frederick R. Kellogg '64, former freshman adviser at Harvard, launched an attack against the present four-year Bachelor of Arts program in an article in this week's Harvard Bulletin, reflecting a growing dissatisfaction with the inadequacies of American higher education...
Describing the four-year degree as "a tremendous source of discrimination in our society," Kellogg proposed that colleges grant the bachelor's degree after two years of study...
...only Republican thing about Barbara Howar is her famed friendship with Henry Kissinger, Washington's most sought-after bachelor. A stunning blonde zinger from North Carolina, Mrs. Howar, 36, got her social start as a Johnson campaign volunteer in 1964 and as the wife of a rich Washington builder, from whom she was divorced three years ago. Since then, she has lived largely by her wits (which are considerable), doing TV interviewing and being an exciting presence at parties along the Potomac?many of the best of which she herself gives in her small house in Georgetown for an eclectic...
...Four-year medical-school programs and three-year residencies should each be shortened by one year. The goal: much earlier clinical practice. Medical schools should also institute a two-step degree system. After completing basic requirements, students could graduate with a new degree called bachelor of medicine or master of human biology, which would qualify them for research and teaching. Those interested in practicing medicine would be required...
Theatrics of Neatness. Who else has a switch on his terrace that, at the flick of a whim, causes a fountain to spurt 120 feet into the air from the center of a private lake? Johnson's house is a monument to the theatrics of neatness: only a bachelor could sustain such stark elegance at this pitch of obsession-one three-year-old child could reduce it all to chaos in ten minutes. It is perhaps the expression of a dilettante-in the classic sense of the word, a lover of the fine arts. It does need money...