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Ueno has a more pragmatic goal for the years at Columbia. Working on a Master's Degree in European history and possibly toward a Ph.D. in that field, she will decide whether she would like to continue in academia or go on to Law School. A Magna Cum Laude degree candidate in the all-honors History and Literature concentration, she readily admits that "for me, my primary commitment was always academics," and feels a strong emotional pull in the direction of the ivory tower...
Academics also played a big role in his life as Jewett graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa after writing a thesis on diplomatic history. His topic was negotiations among the great powers in the 1890s. Jewett received additional diplomatic education from his work on the precursor of the model...
Last year 52 students applied for the 13 awards and Babai says that he thinks even more students will compete for the grants this year. Of the 22 students who won CFIA awards in 1984 and 1985, two graduated summa cum laude and 17 earned magna degrees...
...School in 1950, he spent a year at the Newark extension of Rutgers University. Then, wanting to see something of the world outside his hometown, he transferred to Bucknell in central Pennsylvania, where he acted in college drama productions; founded, wrote for and edited a literary magazine; and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English...
Editor's Note: The phrase Pyhrric victory was not inspired by the Peloponnesian War but by the disastrous strategies of the Greek king Pyhrrus in his war against the Romans in the Italian region of Magna Graecia...