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...least two major departments. More are likely to follow, and it is hard not to see the good sense in their objections. Any major piece of writing, especially writing based on much research, is bound to impose strains that make the writer want, whimsically or fiercely, to abandon it at some point. Surely the thesis is for an undergraduate an extraordinary strain; thesis advisors and Senior Tutors will acknowledge that in more than occasional cases students not forced to finish it would not do so. (That they can finish it without going mad is clearly shown by the fact that...
...must be a prospect that not even Mao Tse-tung relishes facing. Instead, by in effect quitting while they are ahead, the Chinese can play the peacemakers in the short-sighted eyes of the neutral nations, while having dramatically demonstrated their military superiority over India and without having to abandon the long-range threat. Says Madame Pandit: "This attack was far more than just an attack on one border. India is completely and wholly dedicated to democracy and not to some kind of 'Asian democracy.' China's motive was to humiliate India and to prove democracy...
Faculty members who oppose late switching think that if it were permitted, the doubts that students often feel just after starting their theses would lead many to abandon their work in favor of a C.L.G.S. degree. Professors who would like to allow undergraduates to make the change maintain that individual circumstances often would justify...
HOUSE, loyalty and inter-House rivalries, supposedly a strong part of the Harvard system, have been consciously rejected in the Radcliffe version. The girls have no wish to abandon already strong dorm affections, and the Masters see no reason to change this. Master Martin "would be distressed if silly inter-House rivalry developed." In his view, the Houses should not "increase parochialism." Their best contribution is to make living a mile from Harvard yard "more than eating, sleeping and casual chatting." Athletics might require House loyalty, says Martin, thinking does...
Rudolph also revealed that Cambridge would abandon its red and yellow traffic lights and will begin to install the "walk, don't walk" signal when the old signals...