Word: cumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduate level than it is to choose the highly talented historian. Certainly no department should award summas on a quota basis. On the other hand, the criteria should be harmonized so that the qualified student, regardless of field of concentration, has a fair chance to be graduated summa cum laude...
James S. Duesenberry, professor of Economics and co-chairman of that department's Examining Committee, admitted that "We're pretty fussy" in awarding honors degrees. He said, however, that a summa cum laude degree in Economics was intended to be "a very high recommendation," limited to students "likely to become creative scholars if they continue in their field...
...Summa cum laude" degrees are harder to win in the Social Sciences than in the Natural Sciences or the Humanities, according to a report which the Faculty will consider at its meeting today...
...report, dealing with graduates of the last five classes, finds that the percentage of students receiving "summacum laude" or "magna cum laude" with highest honors degrees was 6.9 in the Natural Sciences, 3.6 in the Humanities, and 1.3 in the Social Sciences. "Magna cum laude" with highest honors is awarded when a Department recommends highest honors, but the Faculty does not accept the recommendation...
Thirty-one seniors will receive their degrees summa cum laude this morning at the Commencement exercises...