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While Rudenstine will confer degrees upon all of the University's graduates, undergraduates will actually receive their diplomas in the afternoon at ceremonies held at their residential houses...
...School of Dental Medicine will confer 45 degrees in three categories, conferring 22 doctor of dental medicine (D.M.D.), 14 master of medical sciences in oral biology (M.M.Sc.) and nine doctor of medical sciences in oral biology (D.M.Sc.) degrees, according to Assistant Registrar Melissa A. Dunphy. The school will also award 22 certificates for work in various speciality programs...
Through blind physics, the Antarctic can confer on a dead seal the splendor of an Arthurian burial rite. A corpse will become frozen beneath some floating ice, then rise slowly to the top as ice forms below and evaporates above. Once on the surface, the body insulates the underlying ice from the sun, causing it to form a pedestal as the surrounding ice recedes. Eventually, the ice breaks up, and the seal, mummified by the dry, cold climate, drifts out to sea. As layers of warm and cold air bend light and play tricks on the eye, it can appear...
However, I would like to correct two glaring errors in the article that fail to confer credit where it is due. First, though Zack Sung did manage to create an incredible set, the artist who Tiwari accidentally assumed was Sung was in fact the Artistic Designer, Sam T. Pfister...
...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...