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...must for all Presidents, and, as is so often the case, the last act is a welter of charges and countercharges, scandal and disillusion. Still, Reagan is fighting, smiling. His standing with his people is edging up a bit. There will be dining and toasting and travel, a just rite of exit. But the power is palpably fading. It is being gathered up in strange little places like Greenfield, Iowa, where the latter-day populist Jesse Jackson tramps through the cornfields, and Campton, N.H., where Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis sounds native...
Commencement is an ancient rite that takes different forms in different institutions. But almost everywhere, the ceremony affords an occasion not only to congratulate the seniors who have completed their course of study but to reflect upon the world they will inherit and the contributions they can make to improve it. In this spirit, let me draw upon the three months I recently spent wandering abroad to express some thoughts on one of the many themes to which Ted Hesburgh has devoted his talents...
...mean a writing band, sir. We could get all the kids together and then our writing would really rock. You and Mr. Do-rite could write lead...
...tried to think of it as a uniquely Harvard rite of passage, one that my unfortunate friends in New Haven never experience...
High school students across the country dread that nerve-wracking rite of passage, the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). But if some students at Brown University have their way, the test may become a thing of the past...