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...newly released details reveal that the Law school will now award its Latin honors—cum, magna cum, and summa cum laude distinctions—on a proportional basis, with the summas going to the top one percent, magnas to the next 10 percent, and cum laudes awarded to the final thirty percent of graduates...
...They wanted ROTC to be eliminated, since the draft was taking so many students away to Vietnam. They were also angry about what they felt was an out-of-touch administration--the most salient example being the 1968 Commencement, which was held in Sanders Theatre with only the summa cum laudes attending, for the more plebeian magnas and everyone else to watch on television, since they hadn't planned for rain in Tercentenary Theatre...
David V. Kimel ’05 graduated summa cum laude in Classics. He was half of 2005’s American Parliamentary Debate Team of the Year. And he has also written a children’s book. He seems vaguely aware of the unorthodoxy of his situation. While his debate friends were going off to law school, Kimel taught English in a South Korean steel factory instead. “It was like being in a Charles Dickens book,” he recalls. “It was at that time that I started looking back...
...Originally from Kansas City. Earned a bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, followed by master's degrees in statistics and sociology and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan...
...popular with students?’ and basically everyone used CliffsNotes. But they had some real flaws. We realized we’re at Harvard with all these awesome English majors—for example, the person who wrote the SparkNotes on Moby Dick wrote a summa thesis on Moby Dick, so it’s definitely one of the best study guides on Moby Dick on the planet. According to the Wall Street Journal, we had more Harvard grads working for us in ’99 than any other company in the world...