Word: summa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Oyez,--Hoeren Sie, Signore--and the same thing in all the other languages in the calendar. This is the day of days, the climax of climaxes, the very summa of cum laudes...
There are now ten countries in which the United States has ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary. Seven of these ambassadors are college graduates. Curtis Guild '81, the minister to Russia, graduated with a summa cum laude degree. Robert Bacon '80 was until recently United States minister to France, but resigned-this post to become a Fellow of the University...
...those who graduated from College with a "cum laude", 66 out of 290, or 22.7 percent., won this honor in the Law School; of those who graduated from college with a "magna cum laude", 80 out of 204, or 39.2 percent; and of those who graduated with a "summa cum laude," 22 out of 34, or 64.7 per cent...
...Thus," he concluded, "the chance of obtaining a 'cum laude' in the Law School is almost ten times as great for a man with a 'summa cum laude' in college as for a man who graduated with a plain degree; for a man with a 'magna cum laude' it is six times as great; and for a man with a 'cum laude' between three and four times as great...
...question that unless one attains, by hard work, in some department of learning, high standing in college, he cannot hope for great success in his professional school. In the Law School the chance of obtaining a cum laude is almost ten times as great for a man with a summa cum laude in college as for a man who graduated with a plain degree; for the man with a magna cum laude it is six times as great, and for a man with a cum laude between three and four times as great...