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...University will confer honorary degrees on 11 individuals--including two winners of the National Medal of Science, a former fellow of the Harvard Corporation, a top adviser to President John F. Kennedy '40 and a political and social philosopher--at today's Commencement exercises. Eight men and three women will be honored...
...addition to approving Krieger's course, the Standing Committee also accepted two non-Core courses to confer Core credit...
...aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxical your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook...
...also glad that the administration has chosen to select the student representatives through their representative bodies, the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) of the Undergraduate Council and the Harvard Graduate Council. These students will go in with a legitimacy as student representatives that no other feasible means of selection would confer. We believe that the strong interest and prior research of many PSLM members merit the inclusion of one of their number on the committee, and we would encourage SAC to keep this in mind as it makes its nominations...
...finals near. Regardless of how effective a learning environment Mass. Hall provides (protesters hanging out the windows, frequent chants and marches, etc.), the choice to “show support” by preventing students from suffering the consequences of their actions—using an ideological test to confer a pedagogical benefit—is clearly inappropriate. Professors may use their lectern as a soapbox, but not their grading sheet...