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Rubin, 63, graduated summa cum laude in economics from Harvard in 1960. He also studied at the London School of Economics and Yale Law School...
...graduated from the College summa cum laude in Classics in 1957 having received a half-dozen prizes in Greek and Latin and having been inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard four years later...
...order to make summa requirements more clear to students—to promote “truth in advertising,” as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles said yesterday—the Faculty approved an amendment to the official Faculty policies on granting degrees...
...think the language doesn’t direct students to what is expected of them,” Thomas said. “If we are legislating an actual principle [that students must receive A-range grades across all areas in order to qualify for a summa degree], we should go ahead and make that a requirement...
When the number of summa degrees awarded by the Faculty reached 160 in 1996, the Faculty passed legislation in 1997 which suggested that the percentage of summa degrees awarded to Harvard undergraduates should fall between 4 and 5 percent of the graduating class. The number of summa degrees awarded today averages roughly 140 per year...