Word: summas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with police in 1952, when A.U.B. banned pro-Arab politicking on campus, then disbanded the student government. Last spring the ultrasensitive government of Lebanon, serving a population half Moslem and half Christian, ordered an A.U.B. teacher expelled from the country for assigning students readings from St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Contra Gentiles, which contains criticisms of Mohammed's theology...
Academically, a perfect 4.0 is about as rare in colleges as a .400 batting average is in pro baseball. Nonetheless, Daisy's achievement was matched by other summa cum laudes at major universities in the class of '66. Bruce A. Wooley, a University of California electronics engineering student, racked up three years of 4.0 at Berkeley after an unblemished year at the University of Arizona. Thomas J. Messenger had perfect marks as a physical chemistry major at the University of Michigan. Air Force Veteran George Chartier, a 30-year-old psychology major, completed straight-A work...
...seniors and candidates for graduate degrees will follow them into the Theatre. Of the College's graduates, 67 per cent will receive honors: 181 cum laude in general studies, 309 cum laude in a field, 210 magna cum laude, 14 magna cum laude with highest honors, and 45 summa cum laude...
Under the present system, degrees are granted according to academic honors (B.A., cum laude, magna, cum laude, and summa cum laude). Students are given their diplomas alphabetically within each category. The new system would change this to alphabetical order regardless of honors, except that summa degrees would be given separately. (Last year, only six students graduated summa...
Theodore H. White '38, a summa graduate and a member of the Committee to Visit Far Eastern Languages, is probably an institution by now; watch...