Word: summa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's why John Weisbrod is at Harvard. Not to graduate summa cum laude, but to play hockey. The English concentrator says he's here to win national championships, not to read British novels...
...realize that I'm no constitutional scholar, and my half-B.A. doesn't match your summa J.D.'s and L.L.B.'s. Still, it seems to me that your proposal--to pass a statute making the flag a national icon like the Statue of Liberty--would easily be contested as a blatant violation of the Court's latest decision...
...addition to maintaining their rigorous schedules, many of the Black Greeks on Harvard's campus are mastering their academics. This is reflected in the fact that, this year, every graduating member of a Black Greek organization on Harvard's campus has earned honors that range from CLGS to Summa Cum Laude...
...Union Carbide Professor of Risk Economics!)? In my dream Harvard, any group willing to foot the bill should be made part of the University. I can see it now: Israeli Occupation Forces credit on one classmate's transcript, Filene's store manager training on another and the valedictorian graduating summa cum laude in Somerville Police Studies...
Music Professor David Lewin '54 received his undergraduate degree in mathematics, summa cum laude, before choosing music as his profession. "Both fields are very abstract," he says in an interview, "and both give a similar type of pleasure. They both involve the pleasure of puzzle-solving and the pleasure of craftsmanship, and seem to put you in touch with something humanistically profound." Unlike most other fields, he says, social utility is rarely a chief motivation...