Word: summas
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Junior is a genial, hair-triggered young man who prepped at a Cambridge (Mass.) public school and at Exeter, flashed through Harvard summa cum laude, landed a fellowship at Cambridge University, and came back to Harvard a Junior Fellow. His senior thesis on Orestes A. Brownson, a Transcendentalist who turned Catholic, was published when he was 21, sold only 2,500 copies. With the war he went to OWI in Washington, then to OSS in the ETO, ending up as a corporal in political intelligence...
Heading the list of honor students in the College were Willard Thomas Grubb, Jr. '45, who received a Summa Cum Laiste degree, and Mitchell Irs Goodman '45, Reuben, Philip Hersh '47, and Allan Johnson '47, who received Magua Cum Laiste degrees...
...Paul's School, in New Hampshire, he captained the hockey team, excelled in scholarship, debate and occasional horseplay. At Yale, he developed these talents, added new ones, worried mightily over the nation. He was graduated summa cum laude, just in time...
...senior year he was editor-in-chief of the Amherst Student, and a Phi Beta Kappa who graduated summa cum laude. Last week Amherst gave boyish, blue-eyed Charles Cole, 39, the best first prize it had to offer-its presidency...
...noted classicist, Hammond is one of the few men to hold teaching positions in two departments, being in both the Classics and the History departments. Among his other distinctions are a degree summa cum laude from the College, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the degrees of B. A. and B.Litt. from Balliol College, Oxford. From 1937 to 1939 he was Professor in Charge of the School of Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome...