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...Commencement Honors: cum, 39; magna, 14; summa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guide to Fields of Concentration | 4/29/1952 | See Source »

Kuhn graduated from the College with a Summa in Physics. He is a former CRIMSON editorial chairman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Appoints T. S. Kuhn To Assistant Professor's Post | 4/25/1952 | See Source »

...College, 55 men were awarded A.B. degrees, while only one collected a B.S. Eleven men graduated with honors, eight cum laude, two magna cum laude, and one summa cum laude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Gives Feb. Degrees To 56 Seniors | 3/20/1952 | See Source »

...love was still philosophy. One day he discovered St. Thomas, and one by one, as he managed to save the money, young Adler bought the 21 volumes of the Summa Theologica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fusilier | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

Adler is already off on his next great project, which, if he succeeds, will make the Syntopicon look like an exam pony. Adler wants to summarize all the knowledge of the Western world in one vast work, comparable to Aquinas' 13th century Summa or Diderot's 18th century Encyclopaedia. His aim: to help end the Babel of Western civilization, in which specialists in various fields not only disagree but cannot even argue with each other in the same language. He does not want to reach conclusions, but simply clear the decks for "some future philosophic genius" by summing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fusilier | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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