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After graduating from Harvard with a magnacum laude degree in music, Levin was hired bythe late pianist Rudolph Serkin to head the musictheory department of the Curtiss Institute ofPhiladelphia. He left the Institute to take aposition as professor of music theory and chambermusic at the State University of New York (SUNY)at Purchase...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Celebrated Pianist Accepts Position With Music Faculty | 2/28/1992 | See Source »

Keniston's record (A.B. magnacum laude '51, Junior Fellow 1956-60) suggests a fairly high degree of commitment. But the composite uncommitted anti-hero of the first part of the book--Inburn, an American Ishmael--is clearly a hero to Keniston. Like Inburn, Keniston is critical of American society, but he has contrived to keep his disenchantment from interfering with objective achievement. In the first part of the book, the reader is at Keniston's mercy. It is in his power to make the uncommitted students he talks about attractive or offensive, justified or unjustified. That he takes their angst...

Author: By Stephen Bello, | Title: Long Hint of Student Uncommitment | 12/15/1965 | See Source »

Vorenberg will head the office on a part-time basis so that he can continue to teach here. The 36-year old professor presently teaches criminal law. He was graduated from the College magnacum laude in 1949, and in 1951 from the Law School where he was president of the Law Review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RFK Names Vorenberg To Justice Dept. Post | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

Grays 41--James B. Ames '32, magnacum laude, of Wayland; CRIMSON editor and secretary of the Student Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Proctors and Their Activities as Undergraduates | 9/20/1935 | See Source »

...following members of the class of 1933 received the degree of A.B. magnacum laude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Gives 2148 Degrees Today, Smith Among Those on Honorary List | 6/22/1933 | See Source »

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