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...mathematics: "It is much the same as legal thinking-it teaches you to be precise and logical." To meet his expenses, he also worked as a milkman, janitor, driver of a launch for the freshman crew and a painter of handball courts. He made Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude. In 1932, he got his Harvard law degree, clerked for Federal Judge John Sanborn, then joined a leading Minneapolis law firm. A lifelong Republican, he was appointed a federal judge by President Eisenhower in 1959. His fellow judges all have high respect for Blackmun...
Judge Blackmun, who is a member of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, graduated summa cumulated from the College in 1929, receiving his degree from the Law School in 1932. Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., Nixon's first unsuccessful nominee for the seat of former Justice Abe Fortas, also graduated from the Law School...
Sovern has good reason for believing in "the system." Born in The Bronx, he was the son of a garment-industry salesman who went broke at the end of the Depression. He finished near the top of his class at the brainy Bronx High School of Science, graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College and went on to become the top student in Columbia Law School's class of 1955. After two years on the faculty of the University of Minnesota, he returned to teach labor law at Columbia, and in 1960 was promoted to full professor...
...proposal would reduce the requirements for honors at graduation. Law students now must have an A-average to win cum laude, A to win magna cum laude, and A + to win summa cum laude. The new plan would change the requirements to B-, B +, and A respectively...
After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard in 1943, Blum served on Navy patrol craft in the Pacific during World War II. He then returned to Harvard to earn...