Word: summas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...academic graduate programs. Susan Hauser, associate director of career planning at Yale, notes, "It's so expensive to go to graduate school that fewer people see it as a natural progression in their lives." At Harvard-Radcliffe in the mid-'60s, more than 75% of all summa cum laude graduates decided on immediate graduate study in liberal arts and sciences. Now only a third plan on advanced academic degrees: they know there is very little opportunity to break into the overtenured field of teaching. Elisa Lewis, a recent graduate of Northwestern who majored in communications, is enrolling...
...Beat the System: The Student's Guide to Good Grades by Columbia grads Kathy Crafts (summa cum laude!) and Brenda Hauther attempts to legitimized and even glorifies this unsavory approach to college. The authors actually devote a sizable chunk of the book to the art of cheating itself. "Cheating should be resorted to only in the final depths of despair," they conclude. "If you have sunk that low and there is really no other way out," twisting the rules becomes excusable. Thus they provide a few of the better suggestions and hints to guide your cheating. "Coughing codes and answer...
...stall in Cabot and realized he won't have a shot at the brain surgery department he's wanted to join since he was nine unless he does better on his Organic final than 90 percent of the class, not the Social Studies jock who won't graduate summa unless she gets a flat A on the exam in the Astronomy course she still hasn't bought the books for because she spent the entire term writing about underdeveloped nations perceptions of Max Weber, not the Porcellian Club member whose father will cut off his allowance if he doesn...
...Junior Prize Fellow from Harvard on leave from the army, he supplemented his Medical School work with major research on the metamorphosis of grant moths. The war ended before the army could make use of his skills, but he finished Med School anyway and received his M D summa cum laude the second person in the history of the Med School to do so. He decided not to continue with medicine because he wanted to do research on a full-time basis at Harvard, and he joined the Faculty as Zoology professor in 1946 and was promoted to tenure...
...motion as it stands would also eliminate the present requirement that summa candidates obtain grades of A or A- in one full or two half-courses in each of the General Education areas outside his concentration...