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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Talent cannot be forced. A writer who plans to write the Great American Novel usually produces drivel. A quarterback who plans to carry his team on his shoulders usually finds he cannot move...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: God's Squad? | 10/1/1988 | See Source »

Instead, she kicked off a write-in/sticker campaign against Cambridge truant officer Alvin P. Thompson, who unexpectedly beat her to the nomination two weeks...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Graham Keeps Running Despite Loss | 10/1/1988 | See Source »

Career-minded students often find this route attractive. Government concentrator Kathaleen A. Kelly '89, who has not decided whether to write a thesis, says she has been advised not to, because theses do not matter for law or graduate school or what she does after college...

Author: By Kelly D. Eckel, | Title: Who Needs a Thesis Anyway? | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

Harvard places "much too much importance" on thesis writing, and that "if you don't write a thesis, your major doesn't seem to count," says Ginsberg, an East Asian Language and Civilizations (EALC) concentrator...

Author: By Kelly D. Eckel, | Title: Who Needs a Thesis Anyway? | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

Other non-honors seniors share Ginsberg's sentiment. "I feel like things [at Harvard] are geared toward those who write a thesis," says non-honors history concentrator Millard B. Rice '89. "The whole tutorial system climaxes with a thesis...

Author: By Kelly D. Eckel, | Title: Who Needs a Thesis Anyway? | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

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