Word: summa
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...fall of 1973, and, by all accounts, he had already adopted the firm, but not staunch, conservative beliefs that have defined his legal career.Friends and roommates of Indiana-bred Roberts remember that the Straus Hall freshman aspired to be a historian. After moving to Leverett House, Roberts graduated summa cum laude in three years and chose to go on to the Law School instead of the history PhD program.Last summer, when Roberts was nominated to the Court, Robert N. Bush ’77, who was Roberts’ roommate for three years, described Roberts...
...impart this knowledge with others.“I was younger than him, so he always tried to teach me,” Fischer says. “He always tried to open people’s eyes to build an environment around them.” After graduating summa cum laude, Brown earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1958 and then studied art in Europe with Bernard Berenson, an expert on Italian art.“He was very earnest and very serious, and I liked him,” says Henri Zerner, a professor of history...
...Armstrong was about to graduate summa cum laude when his life took an unexpected turn. He had been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship to cover his graduate studies in physics, but his House Master John Conway at Leverett House offered him the chance to travel in Europe for a year on a Sheldon travel fellowship. At the time, Armstrong, who had never ventured further than Washington D.C., decided to take the fellowship...
...Erian said he looked forward to working with Parker Feld. “Karen brings to HMC proven strong portfolio management skills in the foreign exchange area, an excellent industry reputation, an outstanding intellect, and impressive academic credentials.” Feld, a Fulbright Scholar, holds a summa cum laude bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and master’s and doctoral degrees from Stanford University. She is the third senior executive to join HMC as chief Mohamed A. El-Erian seeks to “rebuild and reinvent” the company after former CEO Jack...
...must be extraordinary,” says Spillane-Hinks.Martin’s thesis, a study of ancient Greek democracy through an analytical narrative and a combined adaptation of Aristophanes’ “The Birds” and “Lysistrata,” was awarded a summa on its first grade and is also being considered for the Hoopes Prize. It incorporates an analysis of historical government with the modern-day applications of theater as a form of political criticism.“I knew that when I was thinking about writing a thesis, the only...