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...senior year he was editor-in-chief of the Amherst Student, and a Phi Beta Kappa who graduated summa cum laude. Last week Amherst gave boyish, blue-eyed Charles Cole, 39, the best first prize it had to offer-its presidency...
...noted classicist, Hammond is one of the few men to hold teaching positions in two departments, being in both the Classics and the History departments. Among his other distinctions are a degree summa cum laude from the College, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the degrees of B. A. and B.Litt. from Balliol College, Oxford. From 1937 to 1939 he was Professor in Charge of the School of Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome...
...provincial towns when Caesar had crossed the Rubicon?" asked the examiner when Q came up for his viva. "Well, at first they hardly knew which way to turn," said Q hopefully. "That will do, Sir. Good morning," said the examiner. Q failed to get a "first" (equivalent to summa cum laude) but was given an Oxford lectureship, with Virgil and Aristophanes as his subjects ("I tried to communicate my delight in them rather than to discuss niceties of textual criticism...
...Summa cum Laude awards among those graduating went to Fred Norman Fishman, in Engineering Sciences, and Hellmut Joseph Juretschke, in Electronic Physics, George Seiden, Peter S. Berger, Irving Constant, William H. White, Edward B. Burke, and Saul Touster, were the men receiving Magna cum Laude degrees...
...sweltering Tercentenary Theatre yesterday Harvard conferred 251 degrees, the smallest number since 1875, before a crowd estimated at over 10,000. Only 92 of the degrees went to graduating seniors, the smallest number since 1861; a total of 62 received A.B. degrees, and 31 S.B. The only summa cum lande is Konrad Wise, of Reverly Hills, California, who received highest honors in classical literature...