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...University will today confer honorary degrees on 11--including a celebrated conductor, a key benefactor, a Holocaust-survivor-turned- pioneering entrepreneur and three Nobel laureates...
President Neil L. Rudenstine will confer a total of 5,580 diplomas during today's 349th Commencement exercises...
...employees, the plan draws criticism for keeping the hiring of women at a constant level. 5 - In his first major move as President, Bok lowers the male-female ratio for the Class of 1976 from 4 to 1 to 2.5 to 1. 14 - The Board of Overseers agrees to confer Harvard degrees to Radcliffe students who graduated before...
...might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject--we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic 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, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically...
...Palau Conservation Society, the archipelago's only homegrown non-governmental organization. He has traveled to Britain, Canada, Italy, the Solomon Islands and Fiji to study, but Idechong has never strayed too far from his village roots. Every time he begins a conservation program, his first instinct is to confer with the village elders. He is now starting to focus on ways of protecting the dugong (sea cow) and the hawksbill turtle, both of which are vulnerable to fishermen. He is optimistic because two decades of his campaigning have shown the majority of Palauans the logic behind conservation...