Word: summa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these, 768, or 68 per cent will receive honors: 215 cum laude in general studies, 302 cum laude in a special field, 198 magna cum laude, 11 magna cum laude with highest honors and 42 summa cum laude. These proportions are as usual and last year's drastic drop in summas awarded (there were only 25 then) has not been repeated...
...cent of the 292 girls in the class took their degree with honors, a new Radcliffe record. There were 11 summa cum laude degrees, 2 magna cum laude with highest honors, 64 magna cum laude, and 176 cum laude, 84 of these in general studies...
They were married after his junior year. He graduated summa cum laude in English, after turning in a thesis titled "Non-Horatian Elements in Robert Herrick's Imitations and Echoes of Horace." It was a splendid college career, but in retrospect, Updike feels that Harvard somehow sapped him of some vague, irreplaceable vitality. "I feel in some obscure way ashamed of the Harvard years. They were a betrayal of my high school years, really. Harvard, in exchange for a great deal of work, made me a civilized man. It's somehow painful...
Somehow in the press of nine varsity and three freshman seasons, Wood found time to complete a summa cum laude program in biology. In its cover story, November 23, 1931 Time recognized him as a sports figure of national prominence. "Although a mediocre runner and at times an uninspired field general," Time said, Wood has managed to win the hearts of the most ardent South Boston Harvard-haters. Even "the Boston and Cambridge policemen root for him," the Yale-biased magazine said...
...Teacher. He is friendly and witty and handsome. At 33, he is assistant professor of English at Harvard, giving his own upper-level courses in Elizabethan English Literature, as well as sharing the guidance of Hum 6 with venerable Reuben Brower. He has studied at Princeton (where he graduated summa cum laude in 1956) and Oxford (where he went as a Rhodes Scholar for three years) and Harvard (where he got his Ph.D...