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...these as an undergraduate. Instead, as Professor Perry Miller recalls, "He was in Government, ostensibly, but he used to do all the work for History and Lit. They could have given him two degrees." Goodwin wrote his thesis on Marxian theory, and graduated in 1934 with a degree summa cum laude and a Rhodes scholarship...
...practical sciences, that one is nobler which is ordained to a more final end . . . But the purpose of sacred doctrine, in so far as it is practical, is eternal beatitude, to which as an ultimate end the ends of all practical sciences (music and art among them) are directed." Summa Theological...
...likely to be photographed: the 4th Century Codex Vaticanus, a Greek Bible with the oldest and most important extant copy of the New Testament; the Codex Marchalianus, a 6th Century vellum scroll containing the complete Old Testament prophets; the original author's manuscript of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Contra Gentiles...
...producers of the extravaganza were extremely fortunate in securing the services of Robert Ashenhurst '50, a summa graduate in Physics, who wrote the music and lyrics and collaborated with Georgianna Davis '51 on the book. Although his lyrics were schmalzy at times, the overall work was excellent: light, witty, and highly melodious. Mr. Ashenhurst has done a similar interlude for a freshman smoker and also an original work for WHRB, but has never had a full-length musical produced. Which brings us to the heart of this piece...
...well-known and undisputed fact that there has never been a summa thesis in the last ten years which has not had a colon in the title. Many of these theses have had two colons in the title. the significance of this fact cannot be denied: Harvard college is colon-conscious. It is far more important to say it with a colon is scholarly. Consequently, the first mechanical aid is the constant and overbearing use of the colon. A colon is the difference between a C and a B in a term paper, between a cum and a magna...