Word: summa
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Volcker, who was graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and took his master's degree in political economy at Harvard, is an avid deep-sea fisherman. Before his two children grew up and he moved with his wife to a co-op on Manhattan's Upper East Side, he was a dedicated gardener at his New Jersey home, and he once tried growing grapes to produce his own wine. His report on Château Volcker grand cru: "It came out like shellac." He is from a middle-class family-his father was city manager of Teaneck...
Three hundred and seventy-one students will graduate without honors, 357 cum laude in a special field, 338 cum laude in general studies, 321 magna cum laude, 24 magna cum laude with highest honors, and 57 summa cum laude...
Born in Providence, R.I. in 1916, Whitman graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1943. He earned his Ph.d. from the University...
...laugh because she has arrived. She is no longer merely the precocious daughter of fabled Mathematician John von Neumann, or just the Radcliffe summa who became the first of several modern women to break into high economic policymaking in Washington. A happy wife and mother of two, Whitman, 43, frames corporate policy as a director of Westinghouse, Procter & Gamble and the Manufacturers Hanover bank, conducts a weekly TV economics program, teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and travels everywhere advising officials on the global economy. Says Whitman: "I've advanced from a freak to a role model so fast...
...career by the Great Crash. "I went into economics," he says, "because the world was suffering from catastrophic depression." The experience did not make him a partisan of Big Government; it convinced him instead of the strength of free enterprise. After a boyhood in Paterson, N.J., he graduated summa cum laude from New York University and earned his doctorate in economics at Yale. He started teaching at Cornell in 1947, and has remained on the faculty ever since...