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...only debate on the committee plan centered on the system for choosing the student members. The Fainsod Report suggested a process of indirect election, by which the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee would select student members for the Committee on Undergraduate Education, and the Haryard Undergraduate Council would choose students for the Committee on House and Undergraduate Life...
...rules do serve, it can be argued, to keep the student from scattering his course selections all over everywhere and coming out with nothing but a sort of Reader's Digest education, Intellectual dilettantism. The rules make sure the student at least does something in his four years at Harvard. In the first place, this isn't exactly true: everyone knows it is possible to get a Harvard degree while doing almost nothing for four years but reading an occasional chapter and playing the pin-ball machines. Besides, even if that argument were valid it wouldn't be compelling...
...another front, the Vatican suffered a more acute embarrassment. Rome's T-7, a weekly entertainment magazine, conducted a poll of 300 journalists and 3,000 of its readers to select Italy's Man of the Year. Pope Paul finished second, but it was a discouraging second. In first place, with 2,277 votes to the Pope's 314, was the Socialist Deputy Loris Fortune of Udine, who wrote and sponsored the first divorce bill ever passed by Italy's Chamber of Deputies...