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...struck or a plane has crashed, Senator Ted Kennedy has been left to marry his family's private tears to those of the nation. He has done it so often and so well that we remember him most fondly for the goose-bump lines in his eulogies; he shines brightest in the darkest suit...
...Sakharov was groomed less for political protest than for scholarly solitude. He taught himself to read at four, and his father often demonstrated physics experiments--"miracles I could understand"--to him as a child. At Moscow University in the 1940s, Sakharov was tabbed as one of the U.S.S.R.'s brightest young minds. After earning his doctorate, he was sent to a top-secret installation to spearhead the development of the hydrogen bomb. By 1953 the Soviets had detonated one. It was "the most terrible weapon in human history," Sakharov later wrote. Yet he felt that by building the H-bomb...
...therefore important to remember on this Commencement day just how crucial Radcliffe has been to Harvard's integration of women as full members of its community. It was Radcliffe which brought Harvard professors down Garden Street to teach classes to the best and brightest of women students, Radcliffe whose presence eventually caused Harvard to make classes coeducational and to allow women to live in the Yard and Houses. Female undergraduates today study in Lamont without a second thought, but our freedom of access to that library was forged by the integration of Radcliffe women in 1967. Radcliffe's influence...
...therefore important to remember on this Commencement day just how crucial Radcliffe has been to Harvard's integration of women as full members of its community. It was Radcliffe which brought Harvard professors down Garden Street to teach classes to the best and brightest of women students, Radcliffe whose presence eventually caused Harvard to make classes coeducational and to allow women to live in the Yard and Houses. Female undergraduates today study in Lamont without a second thought, but our freedom of access to that library was forged by the integration of Radcliffe women in 1967. Radcliffe's influence...
Alan Simpson praises Harvard students as the"finest" and "brightest" but commends what he seesas a zest for life...