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Pianists Malcolm Frager and Vladimir Ashkenazy have been fast friends ever since 1958, when Ashkenazy made his American debut. Frager was introduced as a magna cum laude Russian student at Columbia, and shy Ashkenazy greeted him like a deus ex machina friend...
This year's class also includes 21 magna cum laude degrees, six magna highest degrees, and 35 summa cum laudes--the highest in the history of the College...
...Solomon graduated magna cum laude in Greek History and Literature and later received her Ph.D. from Radcliffe in the History of American Civilization. She has taught at Wheelock College and came to Radcliffe in 1959 to head the Women's Archives and the Radcliffe seminar program for adult women...
...Magna Carta. Catholic Bible experts began catching up with the rest of the scholarly world after 1943, when Pius XII issued his encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu. Written largely by German Jesuit Augustin Bea, now the cardinal in charge of Rome's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, the encyclical encouraged Catholics to study the historical background of Scripture, and to use modern critical techniques developed by Protestant and Jewish scholars. Bible scholars hailed the encyclical as their Magna Carta; conservative theologians thought it an open invitation to a modernist revival...
...prototype. On the one hand, she is a tireless volunteer worker for causes from prison reform to mental health, belongs to more organizations than a whole clubful of women. On the other hand, she is a trained scholar with an A.B. (summa) from Radcliffe and a Ph.D. (magna) in German studies from the University of Cologne. She is also the daughter of a college president (Wheaton) and the sister of another (Simmons). The first U.S. woman ever to become a college president twice, she takes over Barnard after 15 years of heading Connecticut College, where she launched $10 million...