Word: summa
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Weld was graduate from Harvard in 1966 summa cum laude. He was president of Phi Beta Kappa. He then went to Harvard Law School where he received a J.D. with honors. He worked as associate minority counsel of the United States House Judiciary Committee when that committee was investigating Watergate. He is presently living in Cambridge, with his wife, who is also a lawyer, and two children. Many political observers have said that the only problem with Weld is his political affiliation--Republican. Weld says he became a Republican because his father was a Republican, and leaves it at that...
...have a couple of favors to ask you, Savo, and I'm prepared to pay big bucks. First of all, I want your secret formula for predicting Ivy League football games. It looks like I won't be able to graduate summa cum laude as a predicter, as you did, but it would be nice to get a magna. Hell, at this point I'd take CLGS...
...season opens this afternoon with what has to be considered a gut compared to the rest of the schedule -- the MIT Engineers. Except that this year the booters are not settling for a Pass; they are shooting for the 'A', summa cum laude, the Latin Oration at Commencement -- the works...
Three hundred and seventy-nine seniors will graduate without honors. Of the honors graduates, 352 will receive cum laude degrees, 304 cum laude in general studies, 354 magna, 24 magna with highest honors, and 59 summa. The Economics Department will award the most summas, with a total of six. A number of departments, however, will distribute no summas, including the departments of History, English and American Literature, Philosophy, Music and Sociology...
...protesters, wearing black armbands passed out in the Houses on Thursday morning, will enter the procession carrying anti-apartheid banners and posters--a number of them in the summa cum laude section at the front of the line...