Word: summas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happen. Most Harvardmen knew that Captain Wood, quarterback. Phi Beta Kappa, student council president, first marshal of the Class of 1932, was plugging away at biochemistry, studying for medical school, working a good part of his time in the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory. He wrote a thesis which won him summa cum laude honors at graduation and which, when published in Germany, was called one of the most brilliant pieces of original research ever done in Harvard's biochemistry department. Not until last week was it generally known what Student Wood was getting at. In studying footballers' blood counts...
This very exclusive Harvard Chapter passed right over two of the first seven ranking men. That June, one was graduate magna cum Iaude, and the other summa cum laude. One of the men entered Harvard Law School and was elected to the Harvard Law Review, than which there is no greater honor. The other man went out into the business world, and became one of the right-hand men to Mr. Gerald Swope...
...Summa Cum Laude...
...highest scholastic distinction in the College, the degree of Summa cum Laude, was awarded to 12 Seniors, the same number as received it last year. The proportion of the class receiving their degrees cum Laude or Magna cum Laude, on the other hand, shows a substantial increase over that of a year ago, bearing out a tendency which has been noticeable during the last decade. The number of awards with distinction has steadily risen, more than keeping pace with the increase in the number of degrees awarded...
...President King went through Amherst in three years, was graduated summa cum laude in 1903. He went to Harvard Law School, practiced in Boston. Notable were his Wartime activities, as a member of the Council of Defense committee on supplies; special assistant and later secretary to Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker. In 1919 he became secretary of President Wilson's Industrial Conference Board whose reports he prepared with Herbert Hoover and Owen D. Young. He is now chairman of Massachusetts' employment commission. In 1920 Lawyer King helped raise the Amherst Centennial Gift...