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...says. “He wrote plays and was a concert pianist. If we could all have a touch of Michael, we would all live in a better place.” Dorothy “Dobbie” Vasquez was Ty’s Latin teacher for four years at the Menlo School and also remembers his creativity. She recalls being impressed by a scrapbook that Ty designed for a Greek and Latin club of which Ty was a member. “It was breathtaking....He took a wooden block, and he carved mountains with beautiful pencil drawings...
...Scientific School, had mandated them). It was also the only discipline to confer undergraduate degrees besides the A.B. (Bachelor of Arts) and S.B. (Bachelor of Science) degrees—in Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, and Metallurgical Engineering. And even the S.B. degree in 1906 did not even require Latin or Greek for admission...
...Summers has helped effect considerable cultural change at Harvard. After years in which the conventional wisdom was that a semester spent away from Harvard was a lost semester, students have begun studying abroad in record numbers. Summers also helped establish a Chilean office of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and upon his recent visit to India, indicated that a similar initiative will soon be underway in Mumbai.Summers combined his astute sense for today’s big ideas with an unprecedented dedication to undergraduate education. He suggested in his inaugural address that students at the College were...
...Testament were read in both their original languages and in English. The origins of the Baccalaureate service are unclear. Columbia and Dartmouth both say on their websites that the ceremony began at Oxford University in 1432, when each graduate had to deliver a Latin oration. But Gomes traces the ceremony to 13th-century Cambridge University, where graduates sat shrouded in hoods—“a picture of abject humility and utter embarrassment.” The service has been part of Harvard’s exercises since the University’s first Commencement in 1642, six years...
...policy to match Russia’s “new look.” Toward this, The Crimson urged an increase rather than a withdrawal of trust in the UN, as well as the extension of multilateral long-term aid, and an increased interest in Asia, Africa, and Latin America...