Word: summas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shirt-sleeved conductor raised his arms, and the 85-member Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra began the introduction to Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto. For Michael Senturia '58, summa graduate in music and former conductor of the Bach Society Orchestra, long weeks of practice have gone into preparation for the HRO's Friday evening concert, his debut before the critical Cambridge audience as the new conductor of the Orchestra...
After graduating Summa Cum Laude, he began teaching at the University in 1928. Piston became an associate professor in 1938 and a full professor in 1944. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1948, and is the author of Harmony, Counterpoint, and Orchestra...
Over the years, however, Harvard students do tend to receive more degrees summa cum laude than Radcliffe proportionately, according to Wilbur K.Jordan, Radcliffe president...
...complicating fact may assuage the fears of militant feminists. Relatively few girls major in the Natural Sciences, which award the highest number of summa degrees. Since most areas in this field do require General Examinations, or thesis preparation, and since Honors are usually calculated on the basis of grades in which the 'Cliffies hold the edge, the lack of the girls' overall superiority may be due the small number in Natural Sciences...
Senturia, who graduated Summa cum Laude in Music, will instruct Music, 253 a graduate level course in orchestration He will be the only member of the Department without a Masters Degree according to John M. Ward '43, Chairman of the Music Department...