Word: summas
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Currently director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Oppenheimer graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1926 after three years of study. He recalls the college as an intellectual paradise. "I loved it," he said later. "I took more courses than I was supposed to, lived in the stacks, just raided the place intellectually...
Another recent appointment was that of Phillip E. Areeda '51 as professor of Law. Areeda, an assistant special counsel to former President Eisenhower before joining the Law Faculty as assistant professor in 1961, received summa cum laude distinction on both his undergraduate and law school degrees. He was note editor of the Law Review and was awarded the Sears Prize and the Fay Diploma, the highest academic honors of Law School...
William Barry Wood, summa graduate from Harvard in 1932 and now a professor at the Johns Hopkins medical school, has no trouble whatever remembering the specific incident that started him on his career as a microbiologist. Midway through his junor year, Wood chanced upon chemistry professor James B. Conant in the hallway outside a laboratory. Conant mentioned that one of his friends was currently investigating the relation between blood count and physical exercise. He suggested that a smart undergraduate might find the work interesting; and he conjectured that the men running the exercise project might be happy to have Wood...
...summa cum laude graduate in 1940 from the Medical School; Dr. Davis had been professor and chairman of the department of pharmacology at the New York University College of Medicine prior to joining Harvard...
After graduating summa cum laude in economics from the College in 1948, Gill spent one year at Jesus College, Oxford, as a Henry Fellow. He then served as assistant dean of Harvard College for several years before joining the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...