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...mercifully warm refuge from the icebound expanse was the 117-meter, scientific-cum-tourist ship Akademik Ioffe, with its hot breakfasts and convivial bar. In a place where 15-story glaciers regularly shed apartment-size chunks into the ocean, I was glad of this sanctuary. I gingerly asked Kathy, the expedition's kayaking instructor, how long I would survive in the near-freezing water if I fell in without wearing a wet suit. "About six minutes or so," she said...
...total number of magna cum laude honors awarded by Harvard College dropped for the second year in a row, with the Class of 2003 receiving 10 percent fewer degrees at that level than their predecessors. Administrators say the decline may have been prompted by faculty awareness of the new, more restrictive honors policy that will be in place next year...
...Summa cum laude honors were down 10 from last year’s total...
Schwartz, also a Crimson editor, will receive the Sophia Fruend prize today, an honor awarded each year to the highest ranked summa cum laude graduate in the College...
Finnigan—who graduated summa cum laude with degrees in math and philosophy from Boston College in 1999—attended Officer Candidate School the summer before his senior year, and was commissioned aboard the USS Constitution the weekend he graduated...