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...these, none is more dreaded or reviled than the oral examination, the supposed summation of all that has gone before. Some students change entire plans of study just to avoid them. In the History and Literature department, an all-honors concentration, orals are required for high honors (magna or summa cum laude), no matter what one's academic standing...
...anything, Jim Phills is one athlete not likely to compromise Harvard's academic tradition. As a sophomore-standing student, Phills completed his A.B. degree in Psychology magna cum laude last year, and is now completing his Master's degree in Experimental Psychopathology...
Another study device, born just this January, involves inscribing sugar packets with Chinese restaurant-style fortunes. I pulled "Kiss the Magna Goodbye" the other day and was reminded of a September 1981 essay by Timothy Foote '49. Foote turned a brief visit to the Yard into an article for Esquire entitled "The Trouble With Harvard" The essay mournfully related his "nagging sense that many of the students should have gone someplace else...
Finley developed his all-consuming interest in literature and languages of the ancient Greek world at Exeter and in his senior year at Harvard won the Bowdoin Prize for an essay on "Euripides and Shaw Compared." A magna cum laude graduate. Finley continued his studies in Greece. Germany and France, where he read the Classics at the Sorbonne. Returning to Harvard, Finley received his Ph.D. in 1933 with a 250-page dissertation written entirely in Latin. He also began teaching that year...
...members spent over an hour debating whether the drop rule would merely complicate the present system, offer new opportunities for students to "manipulate" the system, or allow students to graduate magna or cum laude even after receiving...