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Another recent appointment was that of Phillip E. Areeda '51 as professor of Law. Areeda, an assistant special counsel to former President Eisenhower before joining the Law Faculty as assistant professor in 1961, received summa cum laude distinction on both his undergraduate and law school degrees. He was note editor of the Law Review and was awarded the Sears Prize and the Fay Diploma, the highest academic honors of Law School...
...spot check of departmental tutorial offices yesterday indicated that students are not taking advantage at all of the new University policy allowing honors concentrators to drop their theses at any time in favor of cum laude in general studies...
Franklin waited tables through Fisk, graduated magna cum laude; he typed Ph.D. dissertations to work his way through Harvard, got his doctorate in American history. In World War II, Franklin applied for clerical work in the Navy. The reply: "You have even better qualifications than we are asking for in all respects but one-the color of your skin." The turndown hurt, but it gave Franklin time to become an expert on Negro and Civil War history. He taught for nine years at Howard, helped write the N.A.A.C.P.'s 1954 Supreme Court brief against school segregation...
...this confused and silly business is playable, it would take a strong and versatile actor to do it. Peter O'Toole is none such: his unvarying facade of quivering neurasthenia-cum-whimsy has less charisma than Ian Carmichael. He is that best of soporifics, up interestingly mad. Shame on the British Army forever drafting the poor thing...
Just before Commencement, a squad of department chairmen protesting Dean Ford's sanction of Cum Laude in General Studies offers to tear his elegant new residence to pieces. Ford, calling himself "quite fed up with my job, girls in Houses, CLGS, and the whole bloody mess" goes off to the Foret de Compiegnes as Rusk's second. "What an adventure," he sings on returning...