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HIGHLIGHTS AFTER GRADUATION SCRAPBOOK It happened this The benefits bestowed A year of luminaries academic year | 4–5 on alums | 7 on campus | 8 Erison Hurtault (CC’07) captured record title at Ivy League Heptagonals. VOL. 32, NO. 13 NEWS AND IDEAS FOR THE COLUMBIA COMMUNITY MAY 14, 2007 Columbia’s RECORD- Most Senior BREAKING Graduate SHAKE, GRADUATION By Bridget O’Brian By Dan Rivero any graduate students RATTLE his year’s Columbia com- know what it feels like mencement ceremony to be ABD—all-but- will confer degrees on dissertation. Few know nearly 12,000 students, Mthe feeling as well as Max Horlick. Tmaking this the largest group of Horlick, 89, will receive his doc- students to graduate from the torate in French literature this AND TOSS University’s 18 schools in its 253- spring, more than a half century year history. after defending his dissertation. Over the past weeks, the center Horlick’s academic career was of Columbia’s campus has been interrupted several times, first turned into an arena that will seat when he was drafted into the a total of 40,000 graduates, their Army during World War II. Later, families and guests. Students from after his wife became ill and with 200 countries will receive degrees children to support, he abandoned in disciplines ranging from applied his quest for a doctorate. Last year, mathematics to Yiddish studies. hoping to get him an honorary In addition to celebrating the Ph.D., his children appealed to the accomplishments and promise of University to accept the disserta- this year’s graduates, the University tion, “The Literary Judgment of also will honor distinguished Michel de Montaigne.” leaders who have shaped the Instead, University officials world, expanded the frontiers of asked to see the original work to research and teaching, and assess whether to grant the actual supported the University’s growth degree.
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