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Robert Ashenhurst '50, until last year known to his intimates as a summa physicist, introduced the song and dance musical to Radcliffe. Since his first production a year ago, his reputation and skill have grown in equal amounts--which is to say that this year's Annex-dotes is musically superior to last year's fine...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Drumbeats and Song | 3/15/1952 | See Source »

...Widow Nolan, a summa graduate, opened Manter Hall. Until his death in 1923, he maintained a quiet, unobjectionable tutoring business. His name and work developed into something of a legend, and it was not long before his successors at Manter Hall could advertise: "Ask Dad, ask Grand-Dad, about the Widow...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Exiled Tutoring Schools Once Fought College For Control of Educating Students, but Lost | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Least satisfying is a section of an honors thesis by Leonard Doran, who sets up some worn categories and proceeds to classify Faulkner's output in a notably uninspired way. Again, the omission of several type-slugs is inconvenient. A section of Jerome Gavin's Summa thesis on "Light in August" seems at first glance more sophisticated, but fails to follow through any one interpretation consistently. It suffers from lack of organization and a profusion of ideas that do not seem entirely clear in Gavin's mind. The weakness of these two contributions suggests that it was wise...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: On the Shelf | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...following students received degree Summa Cum Laude at Commencement exercises this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 20 Receive Summas | 6/21/1951 | See Source »

Hand was graduated summa cum laude in philosophy from the College. He worked on the Advocate and gave the Phi Beta Kappa address at his Commencement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Faculty Praises Alumnus Learned Hand, Retiring from Bench | 5/25/1951 | See Source »

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