Word: summa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Death at an Early Age is based on Kozol's eight-month service as a $20-a-day substitute teacher at the Christopher Gibson School in the mostly Negro Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. A summa cum laude Harvard graduate and former Rhodes Scholar, Kozol was badly shaken by the experience-which ended abruptly when he was fired after reading to his class a poem by Negro Langston Hughes that was not on the teachers' approved reading list; it suggested that tenement tenants might justifiably put the slug on their landlords...
Cumulative averages and class standings will no longer be kept for undergraduates. The Faculty has not yet decided how it will determine the honors degrees of cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude...
...Class of '67 will follow one other precedent set last year -- it will get its degrees in alphabetical order, not in order of academic distinction. Before last year, degrees were granted alphabetically within the categories of summa cum laude, magna cum laude, cum laude...
...rigorous formal demands of the New Criticism of Ransom and Tate dammed up the first freshet of his verse. His poems were blocked with a deliberate opaque quality, as if he feared that clarity were a sign of mediocrity. Still, he seemed stimulated by restraint. He emerged from Kenyon summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and class valedictorian. He also emerged a Roman Catholic convert and a husband...
ULYSSES. James Joyce's masterpiece is a short story that exploded into a summa of 30 centuries of Western culture. Joseph Strick's adaptation is merely a pictorial précis of some of the principal episodes-but a good...