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...College will confer 1,585 degrees: 1,572 bachelor of arts degrees and 13 bachelor of science degrees, according to the Harvard News Office. Of the graduating class, 742 are women...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Give 6,154 Degrees | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...Radcliffe Yard, the Graduate School of Education will confer 681 degrees—617 master of education, 60 doctor of education and four certificates of advanced studies...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Give 6,154 Degrees | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...Divinity School will confer 92 master of theological studies degrees...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Give 6,154 Degrees | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...unconventional idea carries risks. For a candidate who is working to escape an image of waffling and splitting hairs, it could be dicey to deprive his party's convention of the only real thing it does: confer the nomination. Though the conventions lost their last shred of suspense long ago, the candidate's acceptance speech is a high point, a chance to outline one's vision to a national TV audience and fuel the usual "convention bounce" in the polls. The TV networks, which have already reduced their coverage of the largely ceremonial gatherings, might cut back even more. Would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hold The Acceptance Speech? | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/19/2004 | See Source »

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