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Only the Administrative Board and a vote of the Faculty stand between a group of seniors and a degree Summa cum Laude...
...following day, a meeting open to all permanent members of the faculty will consider each summa candidate individually. Ordinarily, only a small proportion of the faculty attends the meeting...
Obviously, it would be unfair if advanced-course grades were omitted from the record of a student who suddenly catches fire in his senior year and does much better than he had done in previous courses taken to fulfill honors requirements. And a candidate for the summa or magna should be expected to master anything he does, regardless of difficulty. But the cum laude degree, implying reasonable competence, but by no means brilliance, is a different matter. Here, a candidate should not lose honors if he maintains a B average through all his required courses and then makes...
...past, all grades should be counted towards the summa and magna degrees, and also in cases where improvement comes with the interest stimulated by more difficult work. But for cum laude, the student should be forced to include only those courses specifically taken to fulfill honors concentration requirements. For it is just this student who needs a little encouragement and a reduction of pressure before he will tax his abilities by competing with graduate students...
Graduated in 1939 with a summa cum laude, he obtained his Ph.D. three years later. But it was not until 1946 that the period he characterizes as "the years of struggle" came to an end. With his appointment as Assistant Professor of English, Bate could begin to forget his seventy-hour-a-week, twelve-cents-an-hour summers...