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Senior Honors' candidates in the division of History, Government, and Economics will not be required to take an oral examination in order to obtain a degree magna cum laude this year, if, by their course, divisional, and thesis grades, they have definitely established their claim to the magna degree, it was learned yesterday from Paul H. Buck, assistant professor of History, and chairman of the division board of examiners...
...examination for all Honors above the cum mark, and was put into effect because it was felt that it was "a waste of both the student's and examiners' time" to have the oral quiz when the record of the student already indicated that he was sure of a magna...
Borderline cases between a cum, and a magna will still require an oral, as will the case of any possible summa candidate. "The summa cum laude degree is so unusual," said Buck, "that we have felt it best to retain the oral examination before awarding...
...final decision. Does this mean another convention? In addition, these students are "to be chosen first on the basis of intellectual ability; this would assure no warping of judgment as a result of poor grades." But the committee cannot seriously believe that a man, with his fingers upon a Magna or Summa, will be impartial to his department...
Except in appearance, the transparent little water flea called Daphnia magna is a good deal like a human being. In the words of Professor Arno Viehoever of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science, who finds Daphnia useful for testing drugs, "this little animal has a divine simplicity that is miraculous. Its fundamental biological responses are very similar to ours. It has nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory, optic and reproductive systems...