Word: honored
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Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence commissioned a study of the merits of an honor code with a view toward possible applications at Harvard. Although Spence said that he has no plans to alter Harvard current testing system, the study is being conducted to help determine if the College might benefit from some type of honor code...
Verba accepted the honor quite modestly, saying he felt he "really did not earn the title" because he "never really worked at being tweedy...
...addition, Lowell Professor of the Humanities William Alfred earned the the M Magazine honor of "Beyond Tweedy: The Suity Professor." He said the award the "most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I'm the most unstylish man at Harvard. I think it's hilarious that they picked...
...foreign policy, too, Gorbachev has been sending out mixed signals. He knows the world outside the U.S.S.R. better than nearly any of his predecessors did on coming to power. Even in his Stavropol days Gorbachev made official trips to Italy, West Germany, Belgium and France, a rare honor for a young provincial Soviet administrator. As a Politburo member, he led Soviet delegations to Canada in 1983 and Britain in 1984 and submitted to sometimes hostile questioning by members of the Parliaments of both countries. Gorbachev on those occasions showed flashes of a quick temper. When a British Tory asked...
...Honor Student Ryan White, 13, began seventh grade last week. But he did not get on a yellow bus to travel the five miles to the Western Middle School near Kokomo, Ind. For Ryan, classroom is his bedroom, where he tries to hear teachers and speak to fellow pupils via a telephone hookup. Ryan is a hemophiliac who contracted acquired immunodeficiency syndrome last winter through a blood transfusion. Although Indiana state health officials say that students with AIDS can attend school as long as their condition does not threaten others, District Superintendent of Schools J.O. Smith decided to bar Ryan...