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Sixty-six candidates, who constitute 4 percent of the Class of 2006, earned summa cum laude diplomas, the highest degree bestowed by the College, in their fields of concentration. Fifty-five graduates will receive magna cum laude with highest honors, based on their entire coursework and overall grade point average, and 199 will be given magna cum laude in their fields of concentration...
...woman.But in the face of gender bias, Greenhouse fought back. Her junior year, she helped lead a successful campaign to get Radcliffe students access to Lamont Library.HER LIFE AND TIMESGreenhouse’s long career at the Times began when, only a month after graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe, she became the first female clerk to renowned columnist James B. Reston.“I think I owe my job to the war in Vietnam,” Greenhouse says. “The guys were not free to take jobs like that because they...
...point scale, while hard science students averaged a 12.33? That difference of 0.72 roughly translates to a difference of 0.2 on the four point scale we now use. That is an enormous number! Consider that the difference between last year’s magna cum laude and cum laude cutoffs, 3.657 and 3.414 respectively, was only 0.243. Unless someone seriously thinks that humanities students deserve higher grades on average, either a grading standard must be implemented or transcripts should be altered to include the average GPA in the courses a given student has taken.4. Housing imbalance. Some residential Houses, like...
...fall of 1973, and, by all accounts, he had already adopted the firm, but not staunch, conservative beliefs that have defined his legal career.Friends and roommates of Indiana-bred Roberts remember that the Straus Hall freshman aspired to be a historian. After moving to Leverett House, Roberts graduated summa cum laude in three years and chose to go on to the Law School instead of the history PhD program.Last summer, when Roberts was nominated to the Court, Robert N. Bush ’77, who was Roberts’ roommate for three years, described Roberts...
...Eliot House Fellowship Committee as the first recipient. Gilligan racked up numerous honors in his short life—though, as his sister, Lindsey A. Gilligan ’08 said, Paul preferred receiving laughs to receiving praise. He was valedictorian at his high school and graduated magna cum laude from the College with a degree in biology. He intended to enroll in medical school this fall. In his senior year, he received the John Finley Fellowship through Eliot, funding what would have been his travel for a year post-graduation in Egypt and Europe to volunteer as a soccer...