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Concerned by last year's sharp increase in the number of seniors graduating summa cum laude, the Faculty Council at a Wednesday meeting discussed making fewer students eligible for the College's highest honors, council members said...
...Harvard go to extra pains to foster a competitive atmosphere before students ever set foot on its campus? Many Harvard students, who by any other standard are quite stellar, suffer from believing they are not good enough or accomplished enough simply because simply because some of theirs peers are summa cum everything. Such harsh self-criticism is not a positive by-product of being surrounded by 6,400 talented people. It may drive students even harder to succeed, but this, too has its negative aspects...
...spite of a decade of recruiting well-known scholars, awarding magna and summa degrees and advising Hoopes prize theses, controversy remains about the worth of women's studies as an academic discipline...
Thompson has a long and distinguished academic record. After graduating summa cum laude from William and Mary College, Thompson won a Fulbright Scholarship to Oxford University...
Harvard, from which I would get a summa in biology, completed my secularization. This is not a criticism. If Harvard had made me a more spiritual person, it would have failed in its promise to socialize me to the values of the educated elite. Those values are secular. The prized act of mind in the Academy is the laying bare of hidden agendas. The educated person knows that love is really about libido, that power is really about class, that judgment is really about politics, that religion is really about fantasy, that necessity is really about chance. These views come...