Education: You Chosen Ones ...

Last week, Don Spence of Harvard's class of '48 wrote in the New York Times: "The workmen have finished hammering together the commencement scaffolding . . . and everything is set for graduation . . ." And how do the graduates feel? Students "have an uneasy feeling that the world is unraveling faster than anyone can wind it up ... No one envies the commencement speaker in his attempt to sum it all up . . ."

Envied or not, there were, as always, plenty of commencement speakers (some notable ones: Attorney General Tom...

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