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Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, said that "we expect the public school group to outperform, and they do. If academic standing were the only criterion, we should take more public school students. But it isn't: we wouldn't want to admit nothing but "summa" candidates...
Parsons, a native of Cambridge, has been teaching at Cornell University for the past year. He received the A.B. summa cum laude in 1954, the A.M. in 1956, and the Ph.D. in 1961 from Harvard...
...Stone, revered by his friends as "a fantastic guy: he's kind of screwed up." Wilson's friends number his roommate Mike, a genial caricature of an earnest economics major, who says of his future employers "It's not every day a bank gets a chance to have a summa," and a Groton-and-unspecified-club archetype named Peter, who calls himself the "narrative thread" of the show (it is a bald-faced lie). Several of these people have girls: Wilson a fresh-faced intense type, who could have graduated only from Putney; and Mike a pancake-faced, blase' type...
...when an adviser points to a failing grade in a middle-group course and generalizes about a program that presses innocent children into studies for which they are not prepared; when a tutor reports on a sophomore standing student whose performance on general examinations has fallen short of the summa he presumably would have had without the insidious pressures of advanced standing. Covertly the criticism gains strength when AP students are cautioned about intellectual arrogance and reminded that any Harvard course, even repeated work, has unique merit...
...Summa of the Century. After the war, Barth lectured on theology among the bombed-out ruins of his old university in Bonn for a semester, then returned to Basel to carry on with the intellectual job that has preoccupied him since 1932: the writing of Church Dogmatics. Now 9,000 pages and twelve fat volumes long, Dogmatics is Earth's major effort to ex plain what it is that God has revealed. Dogmatics, in Barth's definition, is the critical examination of the Christian mes sage in light of what the Scriptures say. Barth's own examination...