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...College 855 degrees were awarded, of which 346 were for the A.B. degree and nine for the S.B. degree. Sixty-six men received their degrees cum laude, 15 magna cum laude, and two summa cum laude...
...modern university might well "be aiming at a summa dialectical achieved by restoring the conditions of conversation and reinterpreting basic ideas," he said. Specialists, he claimed, cannot think together...
...until after World War I (where, he says, he was wounded when a case of salmon fell on his foot-"It gives me a picturesque limp on rainy days") that he went through the University of Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude. As soon as he could he headed for Cambridge University, there "to walk over door sills that had been worn by 600 years of students and to sit in lecture rooms where Marlowe and Milton had sat." He had long since made up his mind what his life's work would...
...celebrate services!' 'Go and edify yourselves with the sermon!' 'Go and celebrate the Sacraments!' 'Go and present yourselves in a liturgy, which perhaps repeats the heavenly liturgy!' 'Go and devise a theology which may gloriously unfold like the Summa of St. Thomas!' Of course, there is nothing to forbid all this; there may exist very good cause to do it all; but nothing, nothing at all for its own sake. In it all, the one thing must prevail: 'Proclaim the Gospel to every creature...
Smoke Signal. Near Bari, Italy, Farmhand Donato Summa explained why he had flagged down the crack Rome-Bari train to speak to the engineer: he had been working in the fields for three hours without a smoke and needed a match...