Word: summas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This article has just appeared in the first issue of the Bay State Banner, Boston's new Negro newspaper, and is reprinted here with its permission. Jonathan Kozal '58 was graduated summa cum laude, held a Rhodes Scholarship, and is author of the novel Fume of Poppies. He was the object of nation-wide attention last spring when he was fired from his post as a fourth-grade teacher in the predominantly-Negro Gibson School in Roxbury. The reason given him was that, along with poems by Frost, Longfellow and Yeats, he had read to his pupils Langston Hughes' "Ballad...
...When mentioning McGeorge Bundy's summa cum laude from Yale, you might have added that he was one of the greatest college debaters of all time. I speak knowingly about this-and without pleasure-for I was coach of debating at Harvard when Bundy was on the Yale team...
...Little Scary." To the job of Ambassador to Academe, McGeorge Bundy brings solid-gold credentials. A summa cum laude Yale graduate in mathematics, at 34 he became the first Yale-educated dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. A compactly built man (5 ft. 10 in., 165 Ibs.) with greying brown hair, his pink cheeks, furrowed brow and plastic-rimmed glasses give him the air of a slightly perplexed professor. A professor he has been, but there is not a pennyweight of perplexity in him. He is self-confident to the point of arrogance, intelligent...
...cent of the class graduated with honors, and six seniors received their degrees summa cum laude...
...college's graduates, 67 per cent received honors, the highest percentage ever. 133 students were awarded the degree cum laude in general studies, 342 cum laude in a field, 222 magna cum laude, 13 magna cum laude with highest honors, and 25 summa cum laude...