(FORTUNE Magazine) – ITHACA--For the last 35 years, one course in Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration has had the reputation of being one of the easier A's in the Ivy League . . . Hotel Administration 102 . . . is a program in which the school's dean, John J. Clark Jr., arranges for leaders in the hotel and restaurant industry to speak to 600 students for 45 minutes on Friday afternoons . . . If a student misses no more than one lecture, he receives a one-credit grade of B. That can be raised to a B+ or an A by writing a two- to three-page paper evaluating one of the semester's speakers . . . There are no other papers, exams, . . . or homework assignments. ''It probably is the easiest course in the Ivy League, but it's not the easiest to stay awake in,'' said Ariane Steinbeck, a . . . student. --From an article in the New York Times.