Word: summa
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...yesterday’s faculty meeting, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences affirmed that students are expected to earn A-range grades across all areas of study in order to be considered for a summa cum laude degree...
Grades are higher today than ever, yes. But it is not difficult at all for Harvard students to distinguish themselves academically. No matter how much grade inflation there is, for example, the number of summa cum laude graduates remains capped at approximately 5 percent of the class. No matter how much grades inflate, the number of Junior Phi Beta Kappa inductees remains 24. Even more telling, and something that surprises most people when they hear of it, is that last year graduating senior Kevin S. Schwartz ’01 (now a Marshall Scholar) was the first undergraduate in eight...
Hyman, 49, graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1974 in philosophy and the humanities. He was selected as a Mellon fellow and received a bachelors’s and a master’s degree in philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge...
...senior-year pie, dripping warm cherry filling all over my new winter white corduroys! “Shoot him! Shoot him!” I cry to no avail. The beast, unsatisfied with having eaten my pie, moves on to its next victim with that “no summa for you” grimace and “overdue library book fine” growl...
...Virginia. Not only did we meet the most delightful people there, but I was able to see some of Mann's surroundings and inspirations. I now own all her books, and through the help of a supernice bookstore owner, they are autographed by Mann! I treasure them. DORA SUMMA New York City...