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...PEARL BAILEY at Syracuse University: "Well, you'll want to go out with your degree and get yourself a job. Don't go out with your diploma in hand and say, 'I am going to be an executive.' I run into them every day. Half of them can't spell. Can't spell. Can't read. Can't write. So if you walk out of here with a diploma in your hand, you better walk out of here with something these professors put in your heads too. And retain it, or you're going to be in bad trouble...
...formally authorizing voluntary school prayer. "We're going to turn the heat up on Congress," vows conservative Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie. For all the turmoil and upset generated, the case had a calming effect on at least one person. Said a delighted Ishmael Jaffree: "Now I know how to spell relief...
...years since then, activists have halted one Commencement for 20 minutes in protest of Harvard real estate practices, carried balloons with slogans denouncing Harvard's treatment of employees, and used masking tape to spell "Divest Now" on top of their mortarboards...
...while divestment activism reached new heights this spring, the campus was silent on a raft of other issues that in another time would have filled the streets with shouting demonstrators. With the exception of a brief spell of protest against Reagan's proposed budget cuts in student financial aid and U.S. involvement in Central America, students here were silent...
...horrified might be a better word to read in today's [May 8] New York Times that my college is thinking about granting an honorary degree to a man who has shown himself again and again to be a toe of education higher education in particular I need not spell out the details for you, Though his contemptuous treatment of the Department of Education and his attempts to end student loans are among the many examples that could be cited...