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...cappuccino mixes with an aura of intellectual smugness. Titles like The Naked Night, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander and After the Rehearsal, which once constituted a summa-cum-laude cinematic honor roll, have since tumbled into Trivial Pursuit territory...
Classmates from both law school and college remember Roberts as a hard working, earnest, kind, and brilliant person. Roberts, who graduated from the College with a summa cum laude degree in History in just three years, wrote his thesis on British liberalism in the early 20th Century...
Seventy-five candidates, who constitute nearly five percent of the graduating class, earned summa cum laude diplomas, the highest degree awarded by the College, in their fields of concentration. Sixty-two candidates will receive magna cum laude with highest honors, based on their entire coursework and overall grade point average (GPA), and 184 will be given magna cum laude in their fields of concentration. Thirty-nine will be awarded cum laude in general studies, while 476 will receive cum laude in their fields of concentration...
Fifty percent of today’s graduating class, about 790 students, will receive summa cum laude, magna cum laude, or cum laude in field degrees. Up to an additional 10 percent of departing seniors will receive cum laude degrees recognizing their overall high grade point averages (GPAs), without being recommended by their concentrations...
...more familiar Latin honors—summa cum laude, magna cum laude, and cum laude—recognize the excellence of a student’s overall record, including the work within and outside of the concentration...