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...enrolled at City College of New York, a free school that had become a kind of immigrant Oxford. He tore through the place--nearly all A's--and finished just shy of summa cum laude. (He totaled his car shortly after getting that news from a dean. "I got a C in Faulkner," he explains today, still annoyed. "My third year speaking English, and I'm reading Faulkner!") But when he graduated in 1960, the New York Times trumpeted the success. His professors knew they'd hear from him again. "I was a little astonished by that kind of ambition...
...past, the EPC has examined summa cum laude degrees, grade inflation and joint concentrations, according to Knowles...
...that opportunity earned us considerable satisfaction, yet there were big stumbles too--a classmate was briefly a welfare mother, and a summa cum laude grad with a Ph.D. is doing "odd jobs"--and the searing realization that we could fall short of our high expectations. Psychologist Susan King Brown admitted in the 25th-reunion book the secret in many of our 50-year-old hearts: how hard it is to come to terms with the fact that "I'm not at the top of my field ... that I will probably never do any significant or well-known intellectual work." Vivien...
...Must approve all major curricular and administrative changes, such as Core reform and the number of summa cum laude degrees...
...encourage it if people are interested in it," he says. "[But] we think that it's not for everyone so we provide other completely legitimate alternatives. I think the one case where arguably it's encouraged is that you can not get a summa recommendation from the department without having done an honors thesis...