Proposing a "MCLGS"

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Is the CLGS just a consolation prize for those not "good enough" to take honors in their fields of concentration? Does official Harvard think that everybody should write a thesis? If so, why have the CLGS at all? If not, if I am right in my belief that writing a thesis is a work only for someone with an unusually deep commitment to his major, why not have a Magna in General Studies, Jim Boyk '65