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...this drive, Agarwalla graduates summa cum laude today...
Kaiser also recalls Alter’s thesis as outstanding and remembers that it received two summa readings...
After finishing his thesis comparing Henry Kissinger’s academic work and his performance in office and graduating summa cum laude in Social Studies, Whitaker took a prestigious Marshall scholarship to study at Oxford...
...baseball diamond, Harvard students’ ability to bend the Organization Kid stereotype often presented itself in everyday college life. There was the spacey mid-Westerner roommate, with hours of video game playing under his belt and a summa cum laude thesis under a pile of clothes. There was the group of friends that said “work be damned” and lingered for an hour in the dining hall “marinating” post-meal. There was the universe-probing late-night conversation held over a double-decker or a courtyard-imbibed bottle...
...June of 1954 Updike graduated summa cum laude. In his alumni reports, he has upheld this academic training as preparation for the critical work—such as his frequent reviews for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books—that have increasingly become a part of his corpus in the 50 years that followed...