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Forty fewer summa cum laude degrees will be awarded this year than last. Smith said the decrease is the result of the Faculty's decision to be more stringent in recommending and granting the College's highest academic honor...
INDIANAPOLIS 500 Stringent new limits are the pits, turning racing's premier event for automotive innovation into a slanging match between rival factions...
...double-breasted suits, French cuffs and knuckle-size cuff links. He not only lives in a mansion designed like a traditional Japanese home, he's also spending $40 million to build a bigger one. While most Valley manses conform to California's earthquake code, Ellison's meets a more stringent requirement: it is being built, from the wood pegs up, in the manner of a 16th century imperial Japanese residence...
Harvard's program address the new Massachusetts welfare requirements, which are among the most stringent in the nation...
...count elective courses in the decision to award Summa Cum Laude degrees while decreasing the number of Summa recipients to between four and five percent of the total degree candidates. We are concerned that the proposal's recommendations are too vague and we hope that the Faculty will be stringent in the requirements according to which it ultimately makes these decisions. More importantly, though, we encourage the Faculty to not reduce the percentage of Summa recipients for the sake of numbers alone; instead, we hope that the Faculty will define clear qualifications for receiving Summa and will award as many...