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Since 1907, students at Harvard College could get a Bachelor of Science degree if they hadn't studied enough ancient languages to get a Bachelor of Arts. Last week Harvard discontinued the S.B. (as of 1950). One reason: it "denoted not a knowledge of science but merely an ignorance of Latin...
Last week Mike Cowles reversed this pattern. From now on, he will live in his bachelor apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers (he was recently divorced), commute to Iowa every other weekend. As Cowles moved into the editor's office at Look, jovial, 42-year-old Harlan Logan, his editor since 1942, moved out. Said Logan, not so jovially: "Mr. Cowles and I are in general disagreement on what is a family magazine...
...result of a Faculty vote yesterday, the Bachelor of Arts will be the one degree awarded henceforth to all who graduate from the College, beginning with the Class of 1950 and including all students now enrolled, if they so choose...
Thirty years of confusion over an educational symbol should come to an end tomorrow when the Faculty meets to consider the College's incongruous distinction between "arts" and "sciences" in the award of the bachelor degree. It has frequently been suggested that a college education by any name would stand on its value as education, but upon whatever scrawlings appear on one's final sheepskin, and that the whole controversy is wasted energy. But a downy thistle can be as annoying as a full-grown bramble, especially when the whole field includes thorny questions of the value of the ancient...
...student body definitely prefers the A.B. while only ten percent stands by the S.B. On the other hand, the College's long run educational philosophy being developed in the General Education plan will increasingly emphasize the basic unity of all learning on the college level, pointing logically to one bachelor degree...