Word: grades
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...expected, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday voted to remove the words "in General Studies" from the Cum Laude in General Studies degree. Seniors who achieve a grade point average of a B or above but do not opt for an honors track within their concentration receive this degree...
Although we realize that David Lat's April 29th editorial ("Hypocritical Society," Dartboard, Apr. 30) was perhaps just Saturday morning fun, we, writing on behalf of the Hippocratic Society, would like to respond. We agree with his caricature, albeit exaggerated, of the four-color-pen-carrying, grade-grubbing, Cabot-inhabiting pre-med, and we think that this is a perfect reason why we need a Hippocratic Society at Harvard...
...that we had creating--illegally parking somewhere in Brookline, sneaking into the Harvard Community Health Plan parking lot, parking at Lechmere and Riverside and taking the T. We tried to remember who had missed Opening Day games and for what reasons--for me it was a week of fifth grade camp, for Stevie a postponed game that didn't fit on the schedule...
...Falls, recognized him from the composite sketch. And some of his classmates and teachers from Starpoint High, where McVeigh graduated in 1986, would have nominated him as least likely to be the bomber. "He wasn't a troublemaker at all," says Wendy Stephany, while Cecelia M. Matyjas, his tenth-grade geometry teacher, remembers how "the kids used to pick on him." Schoolmates sarcastically voted the taciturn McVeigh "Most Talkative." Still, he showed initiative: he charged the neighborhood kids admission to a haunted house in his basement and ran small gambling casinos on his front lawn. One neighbor thought McVeigh "would...
...pellets of ammonium nitrate mixed with diesel fuel to form a semiliquid that has a consistency of mayonnaise. Because of ANFO's stability, it is usually transported in heavy- duty trucks that often resemble cement mixers. Or construction crews can mix it on site by combining bags of high-grade ammonium nitrate with drums full of fuel...