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Representatives of these fields--Bio-chemistry, English, History, Government, and Economics--revealed last weekend that there are no immediate plans to change summa standards in their departments and that only a few faculty members are disturbed by the situation as described in the report...
James S. Duesenberry, professor of Economics and co-chairman of that department's Examining Committee, admitted that "We're pretty fussy" in awarding honors degrees. He said, however, that a summa cum laude degree in Economics was intended to be "a very high recommendation," limited to students "likely to become creative scholars if they continue in their field...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government and Chairman of the Department, said that "no one has suggested any change, but some are concerned that a summa doesn't mean as much in other departments as in ours...
...Summa cum laude" degrees are harder to win in the Social Sciences than in the Natural Sciences or the Humanities, according to a report which the Faculty will consider at its meeting today...
...Paul in I Corinthians, 7:8-9: "I say therefore to the unmarried and widows. It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn." Argued St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theological: A second marriage is "a somewhat defective sacrament, because it has not its full signification, since there is not a union of only one woman with only one man as in the marriage of Christ with the Church. And on account of this defect the blessing is [usually] omitted...