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...last year's seniors pulled off an amazing double feat--they had below median grades and they graduated with honors. Such is the end result of Harvard's system for distributing honors, a system that is increasingly growing out of sync with the ostensible purpose of the practice--rewarding superior performance...
...laboratory sued Cambridge this spring when the city prohibited the testing and manufacture of nerve gas. That suit is still pending before Middlesex Superior Court, and city officials predict it may go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Superior Court Judge Paul W. Garrity last year appointed Brandeis Professor of Law Charles M. Haar as special master to study the problem and propose a solution...
...difficult one. Academics must not be considered a haven from the system, mystically exempt from the forces of politics, economics and society. Harvard is a shiny cog, but it is a cog nonetheless. If it acts unjustly, it is hypocritical and foolish to defend it on grounds of some superior, ubermensch morality...
...gloried in the values symbolized by those words. We saw ourselves pilgrims in the American cultural wilderness, bound by our understanding that only the SCHOLARLY LIFE was truly worth living. Our communal joy was that of arcane disputation: though of many minds, we were of one mind on the superior virtue of living the LIFE OF THE MIND. We shared, too, genteel contempt for athletes, fraternity men, sorority women, newshawks, campus pols--any whose central (or peripheral) interests were other than THE GOOD. THE TRUE, and THE BEAUTIFUL. Few such were to be found at Chicago...