Word: summa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Glimp warned that although PRL is a "great aid" to the admissions process, "We must remember that it's only one of many things we're looking for. There are a lot of guys more interesting and more desirable than the potential summa. But if you get somebody with a 1.6 who looks like he'll hang together for four years you've got to take...
Seventy-seven per cent of the class graduated with honors, and seven seniors received their degrees summa cum laude. For the second year in a row, the Radcliffe graduates received Harvard diplomas, co-signed by President Bunting and President Pusey...
...Columbia's Dale S. Collinson, 25 (Justice White), the son of an Oklahoma lawyer, is a summa Yale B.A. First in his class at Columbia Law School last year, he was turned down for a Supreme Court clerkship. While he waited for his next chance, Collinson clerked for U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Paul Hays in New York...
...Yale's John H. Ely, 25 (Chief Justice Warren), is a summa Princeton graduate with the further distinction of having collaborated on a landmark Supreme Court case (Gideon v. Waln-wright) before he got out of law school. Ely researched Plaintiff Clarence Gideon's appeal while working for the Washington law firm that handled the case. Second in his class at Yale (magna '63), he has since been working for the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy assassination...
...admitting only upperclassmen who are candidates for Honors, by expecting advanced calculus to be completed by the sophomore year, and by requiring a thesis for a magna or a summa cum laude degree, the Committee hopes to avoid attracting unsuccessful math students "who want to sit back and take it easy," Birkhoff said...