Word: summa
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...degree of A. B. summa cum laude shall be given to every member of the graduating class who attains an average mark of 90 per cent on the general scale for the whole course, or for the last three years of the course, or who receives HIGHEST HONORS in any department...
...leaders which '78 has furnished, but in everything that makes up a university reputation, and especially in its essential feature, good scholarship, the graduating class will bear comparison with its immediate predecessors, and these, it is well known, fully sustained the renown of their Alma Mater. Although the summa cum laude was not attained by any member of the class, it is well known that one at least came so near as only to miss it; and to another triple honors were awarded, the highest in two studies, and honors in a third, - a distinction almost without precedent...
...will be seen that in these last six years no student had taken any honors in Mathematics, until Seventy-seven took three highest in that subject, which is acknowledged the most difficult of all. But the chief glory of Seventy-seven is that one of its number graduated summa cum lands, and his name, as everybody knows, is Gerrit Smith Sykes. If it could boast of nothing else, this alone would fairly entitle the class to the highest distinction. We feel that we are merely following the example of all of his friends, when we offer Mr. Sykes our most...
...made a reward for special distinction. It is a goal which can be reached only by men of brains, but which lies in the reach of all men of brains, no matter what their circumstances may be. What is done for a man here? He may take even a summa cum laude, and receive no more reward from the University than the little distinction conferred by those three words. There is no fault to be found that this is so, but the cause of failure must be understood before the remedy for it can be applied...
...same conclusion about five years ago. The petition sent to the Corporation says that the interests of the students demand the recess; we may say that the well-being of the instructors demands it still more. Except the very hardest grinds among those who are working for a summa cum, none of us begin to do the amount of work that is performed by those who teach us. It can be shown, we think, that in proportion to their whole number, more instructors than students have broken down from overwork. For the sake of us both, then, gentlemen...