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Consistently voted the most trusted man in America, Cronkite, who delivered yesterday's Class Day address, has been the managing editor and anchorman of the CBS Evening News since 1962. The nation's preeminent broadcaster, he was once described by author David L. Halberstam '55 as "the definitive centrist American who reflects the essential decency of American society as much as anyone...
...Core's six main divisions--Literature and Arts, Historical Study, Social Analysis, Moral Reasoning, Science and Foreign Cultures--from which students will be required to take eight half courses when the Core becomes fully effective for the Class of '86, form an "educational experience" when viewed as a whole, Rosovsky says...
...case, it was. For his Historical Study B-11, "The Christianization of the Roman World,"--which, Bowersock says, he would not have developed if not for the Core--he spent months poring over primary sources, ultimately compiling enough research to fill an 800-page volume he used in the class. "It was a wonderful experience, and I think from the responses of students that they enjoyed it too," says Bowersock, who will not offer the course again because he is leaving Harvard this summer for the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton...
Greis points to her election to class marshal position as the culmination of her undergraduate experience. "I approve of what the University is trying to do. I don't know if it's necessarily succeeding, but as long as it tries, I will support it," she says. So despite her desire to enter the real world and carve a niche for herself, and her marked lack of nostalgia about graduating, Greis remains determined to keep in touch with the University in one way or another. Her pleasant memories result more fron her efforts than the institution's. "There...
...whole thing is a tax upon the patience of all excepting such as have relations present.... The glory of former days so far as it consisted of bustle, show and glare has departed, perhaps in truth there is no very great loss by the change." --Charles Francis Adams, Class of 1810, commenting on Commencement circa...