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...received his A.B. summa cum laude from Williams College in 1934, and his M.A. and Ph.D. here in 1935 and 1940. He has twice held fellowships for study abroad: a Guggenheim in 1948-49, and a Sheldon...
...Commencement exercises 990 seniors from the College will receive Bachelor of Arts Degrees, with 259 graduating cum laude, 123 magna cup laude, 14 magna cum laude with highest honors, and 27 with the highest honor that the College can award, a summa cum laude diploma...
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...year numbered approximately 1,500, or nearly 40 percent of the whole Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduate body. Each spring she assigns all sophomores in these fields to appropriate tutors; she prepares the records of more than 200 honors candidates in the departments each year, to determine whether they will graduate summa, magna, cum, or sine; she makes sure that somebody reads and marks all the bluebooks that are turned in from general examinations in the fields; and she constantly answers such questions as "Who is my tutor?", "Do I have to take this course next year?", "Who is teaching...
Besides supervising the office's employees in these routine tasks, Miss Jones personally carries out a job that is as valuable to the University, and difficult to execute, as it is unique and unpublicized. In the early part of each spring she carefully guesses what rank of honors-summa, magna, or cum-each one of that year's honors candidates will retain when he graduates...