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...team player who would comfort such detractors might have felt at home in Dixie, Nazi Germany, or the Bush White House, but he or she does not deserve tenure in the Acropolis of world education. Tenure affords and demands a finer moral compass. We must act on the wisdom that justice withers when intended for just us. And “free speech” is nothing but the self-congratulation of the moneyed and the mighty when the university does not fulfill its unique calling to defend this principle...
...Class Day speakers with comedic backgrounds, such as Conan O’Brien ’85 and Al Franken ’73, Bernanke will be the second straight Washington insider, following former President Clinton. Last year, Clinton exhorted graduating seniors to engage in public service, but whatever wisdom Bernanke plans to bestow remains unknown. “We didn’t tell him he needed to go a certain direction with the speech at all,” said Alexander J. Tennant ’08, the first marshal of the senior class, who speculated that Bernanke...
...reputation for wisdom and insight—beyond being booksmart, which he evidently was—that seemed to belie the fact that he was only a few years older than most of us,” Mack wrote in an e-mailed statement...
...Conventional wisdom has it that too many “passes” suggest a lack of academic rigor, meaning many transcript-conscious students dare not take more than one or two pass/fail classes in their four years. Allowing students to switch back to letter-grading late in the semester means that the “insurance” can be used more frequently and also gives students an incentive to continue to work hard in pass/fail classes in which they find themselves doing well...
...move has been hotly contested by Smith’s subordinates in the College Dean’s Office. In closed-door meetings with the boys upstairs, both Hammonds and outgoing Interim Dean David R. Pilbeam have insisted on the decision’s lack of wisdom. Yet all signs still point to the imminent departure of some of the College’s vital organs from the centre of the Yard to across Massachusetts Avenue...