Word: honored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard on the long list of those groups in American society which oppose the bulk of the Administration's Just because it's an act of omission doesn't make it any less clear. Oxford did precisely the same thing last year by not granting Margaret Thatcher a similar honor, and all observers viewed the action as political in nature...
...groans could be heard from undergraduates who worried that they might soon have to affix their signatures to papers and exams and perhaps even report a peer who has run afoul of the rules. The criticisms ranged from the insipid--that it was nostalgia for his alma mater, honor-bound Princeton that motivated Spence to undertake the study--to the pragmatic--that if the system ain't broke don't fix it--to the serious--no one wants to bust a buddy. Surely, such a cosmopolitan and enlightened a place as Harvard has no use for an anachronism that...
THIS PAST SUMMER, Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence commissioned a study of student honor codes in institutions of higher learning throughout the country. Anticipating the ripples of anxiety such a study would send throughout the student body, the dean attached to the report that innocuous and placating adjective "fact-finding," thereby attempting to dismiss any policy implications...
Although such responses are predictable, they are also intensely ironic. Granted that, at first, the thought of implementing an honor code sounds threatening, its ultimate effect is flattering. The proposition rests on the key, and by all means correct, assumption that students possess the maturity to govern certain portions of their academic affairs without supervision. The establishment of a code would remove from the classroom babysitters we've by now outgrown. To reject an honor code out of hand because of its one uncomfortable, albeit necessary aspect--the responsibility of one student for another's actions--is to focus prematurely...
...irony of the opposition to an honor code stems from the fact that, for the most part, ours is an assertive student body. We regularly protest, for instance, that we don't need a Core Curriculum to ensure that we depart after four years as well-rounded individuals. The rapid growth of student government in the form of the the Undergraduate Council, to take another example, and the multiplication of its functions surely represents one of the most salient features of undergraduate life in recent years while student representation on University committees increases annually. Sometimes this zeal for government spills...