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Exiled Soviet novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who will deliver the Commencement address tomorrow afternoon, is more than likely to pick up one of the special sheepskins--although traditionally the names of degree recipients are kept secret until they step up to the podium to receive their awards...
...tradition, recipients of honoraries must appear in person to receive their degrees. That requirement prevented then-President Harry S Truman, who preferred the June mugginess of Washington to the swelter of Cambridge, from picking up one of the sheepskins in the late '40s, and also kept General of the Army Douglas MacArthur degree-less during the Korean...
Bromage, however, views this absence of pre-professional pressure ambivalently. Her class didn't have ready-made plans, and that kept many avenues open to them. "In a sense knowing exactly what you want to do closes you off from so much, even though pre-professionalism may make things easier in the short run." Having a clear direction obviates a lot of self-searching, she concedes, but, carried too far, it encourages mental rigidity--and flexibility, she feels, was one of the greatest gifts she received from her education by the Charles...
...identities of degree recipients are traditionally kept secret up to the last minute, but informed sources are pitting their money on heart-throb John Travolta. Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D-N.Y.) is another likely candidate, although fellow New Yorker Joe Torre, like the Mets he manages, is out of the running this year...
...Yankee imperialism. Over in Boston, meetings were held to protest our foreign policy, and some of us went over to participate in the planning. I remember one committee meeting on Beacon Hill when some mighty stalwart and beautiful women heared their scorn on the Coolidge administration. One lady kept repeating "Poor Sandino, how he must suffer." The marines were finally pulled...