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...railroad waiter's daughter from Mattoon, III., she had a choice of five college scholarships and won a summa cum laude diploma from Howard University in Washington. She is an associate professor at Howard, has been admitted to Supreme Court practice, is active in civil rights organizations and Democratic politics, and last August delivered one of Johnson's seconding speeches in Atlantic City...
...prizes are awarded automatically. The summa cum laude graduate who has the highest Phi Beta Kappa score receives the Sophia Freund Prize of $600 without a bit of extra effort. The Harvard Engineering School Chapter of Tau Beta Pi gives $25 to the most promising engineer. If a boy lives in Lowell House, develops a strong character, and maintains a sense of quiet decency, he may be rewarded by the Korean War Memorial Prize...
Given a five-year trial period by the Faculty, the Program was limited to 20 undergraduates a year partly because it was experimental, chiefly because the social science departments were reluctant to lose any more of their potential magna and summa students and imaginative tutors...
Stewart, who graduated summa cum laude in classics from Yale in 1942, succeeded Elliot Perkins '23 as Master of Lowell House in June, 1963. He has visited Oxford, but never studied there...
...Harvard--was George Andrew Reisner '89, an eminent: Egyptologist who won fame by "solving the mystery of the Sphinx." (He showed that its head is a portrait of Chephren, a fourth-century Pharaoh who built the second Pyramid.) Born Nov.5, 1867, in Indianapolis, Reisner was graduated from the College summa cumlaude and then earned a Ph.D. here in Semitic Languages...