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...next day Mayer was called back to his ship and then ordered to London to become a member of DeGaulle's private staff. Not so young four years later when he rejoined Mrs. Mayer after D-Day, Mayer and his beautiful wife returned to America, his college diploma summa cum laude in hand and his war decorations in a trunk. Mayer said, "I never had that Scott Fitzgerald youth that one can imagine enjoying to the hilt . . . After spending five years as an artillery officer engaging in wholescale destruction, I wanted to help rebuild the world through science." He came...
...dropping of the label "Honors' and the abolition of the three Honors distinctions, cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude. Although grades (especially when viewed in personal rather than competitive terms) can provide an incentive for academic work, Honors distinctions are determined at the end of an undergraduate career and are little more than trophies awarded for public display. In our opinion, high quality work in the senior year that is motivated by the chance to secure such a trophy is not to be prized. If a student wants to demonstrate his scholarly ability to his future assessors...
Listen to Evan X. Hyde, 22, a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth who has become a Black Power leader in his native British Honduras-or "Afro Honduras," as he chooses to call it: "You don't dig living in houses fit for pigs, you don't dig having to work for $20 a week so the white people and the corrupt black rulers can get rich. How long are you going to take this crap? The white man is your enemy, and don't you forget it. Tourism is whorism. I say live black. Black...
Wilson said yesterday that non-letter grades would certainly not count against concentrators. "But," he said, "if two students come up for honors three years from now, and one has all A's and the other has some A's and some 'credits,' and if only one summa can be awarded, we can't be sure the second one will have as good a chance for it as the first...
...about Harry A. Blackmun '29, they hand you a small brown file card. The top line says "130140-Lowell." The rest of the card tells you that Blackmun was born in Nashville, Indiana on Nov. 12, 1902, the son of Corwin Manning and Theo Huegelf Blackmun, that he graduated summa cum laude in 1929, took a law degree in 1932, and is now a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit...