Word: summas
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Starr graduated summa cum laude. Phi Beta Kappa, from Columbia University in 1970, where he was editor of the Daily Spectator, the university newspaper. He came to Harvard in 1975 as a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows and began teaching sociology as an assistant professor...
...native of Stuttgart, Germany, the 32-year-old Nelson earned his A.B. at Cornell University, graduating summa cum laude in physics in 1972. Continuing at Cornell, he received his M.S. two years later, and his Ph.D. in 1975. Nelson first came to Harvard that same year, as a Junior Fellow in the prestigious Society of Fellows. He became a full professor of physics...
...born in Montclair, N.J. and grew up in Toronto, where his father was a university professor. He played varsity hockey and majored in philosophy at Princeton, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1964, picking up the honors thesis prize...
Born in Shanghai, China, Tribe is the son of Polish Jews who fled both Soviet and Nazi persecution. The family emigrated to San Francisco when he was five. A gifted child, he completed high school at 16 and majored in mathematics at Harvard College. After graduating summa cum laude, he began a Ph.D. program in math, specializing in the rarefied subject of algebraic topology. Midway through the doctoral program, he decided that mathematics would be too "lonely" a pursuit and enrolled in Harvard Law School. He finished magna cum laude in 1966, and a year later was selected...
...seniors go to such lengths in writing theses; fewer still receive the type of praise accorded Amy Remensnyder, whose work garnered summa grades. But each year, undergraduate scholars here produce a startling variety of senior projects, examining everything from baseball business practices to Depression-era film styles to a pre-pubescent saint who "restored vision to men and to horses and resurrected dead mules and children...