Word: summa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mansfield, who graduated from Harvard summa cum laude, argues that a system "corrupted" by grade inflation will ultimately hurt the student a good deal more than it will help...
WOODS HOLE--Most students who get to Harvard know how to get A's. The route to a summa is grueling but straightforward. The rules are as subtle as Mao's sayings--both make demands like "Work hard and you will get much done...
...council beat a retreat, taking off--the docket all but the summa section of the proposed honors changes...
...academic rating goes to fewer than one in a hundred candidates and, according to the department's forms, indicates someone with "true creative intellect. Summa potential," and unusual accomplishments, top grades and mid-00 or above test scores." Most students at Harvard received a 'one', 'two' or 'three' academic rating...
...early 1974, Colby knew what Hersh knew and privately cautioned the Times not to pursue the story. In September 1974, Lloyd Shearer of Parade magazine learned from a crewman on the Glomar Explorer, the Howard Hughes ship, about the quest and tried to confirm it through Hughes' Summa Corp., without success. Alerted by Summa, Colby some months later reached Shearer, confirmed the basic facts and persuaded him to keep mum, arguing that recovery of the sub might yield some "ultrasecret" Soviet coding equipment...