Word: code
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While Harvard has never had an honor code, Radcliffe College used a formal honor system for much of its history, and even experimented with unproctored exams from...
Concern about the honor code's effectiveness ultimately prompted a student-faculty committe to examine the system in 1954, says Radcliffe's archivist, Jeanne Knowles. The committee concluded that "...in the academic sphere, the honor system is ineffectual as a guide to conduct at the present time...
Protecting and leading the men of the platoon are the squad sergeants, who, under the obligatory incompetent lieutenant, control the lives and fates of the grunts. Elias (Willem Dafoe) is the idealist, trying to preserve some code of moral behavior at the end of the world. Barnes (Tom Berenger) is a creature of the war, a drawling, scarred, amoral survivor. Both are killers. The only difference is how they go about it. As Chris describes it in one of his voice-over "letter home," the two sergeants fight "for the possession of my soul...
...Lowell House and at Mem Hall, protesters blockaded buildings and restricted the freedom of movement of others--violating the law and Harvard's own code of conduct. The University, however, avoided making arrests, seeking--as it is commonly understood--to avoid publicity...
...immediately proposed a typically American solution. From the New World, a new way to do international business: open covenants, openly arrived at. America would indeed enter the corrupting arena of great power politics -- but incorruptibly, without secrets. In 1929 Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson found out about American code-breaking and interception operations. He abruptly terminated them with his deservedly famous dictum, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail...