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Born in New York, he is the only, person in Harvard history to have won both the Garrison prize in Poetry and the Bowdoin prize in prose composition. He made Phi Beta Kappa and was graduated Summa Cum Lauda. In the next year he received a Henry fellowship, a scholarship to Oxford some-what akin to the Rhodes scholarships...
...finishing school for so many artists and shows aspiring to success in the battle for life on Broadway--will have turned out another graduate with an almost unanimous vote of Most Likely to Succeed in the Fall Class of '41. Olsen and Johnson and company have earned well their summa cum laude. Old father "Helzapoppin" has a worthy son to carry on his side-splitting traditions...
...first two stages may last for the duration of the student's Cambridge stay, be that three months or four years. Some very fine people have been known to start with Radcliffe and cling to it till graduation, and many of those have ended up graduating summa cum laude. And after a man has advanced to an advanced stage he may still drop back into a lesser period of development...
...Junior year, the first covering the general knowledge that the student has gleaned from all the Economics courses he has taken, and the second devoted to testing the student's knowledge on his special field. A candidate for Honors--cum laude, magna cum laude, or summa cum laude--must submit a thesis to the Department in his Senior year...
They were Frank P. Davidson '39, founder and first president of the Harvard Guardian, Richard T. Davis '38, summa cum laude graduate in government, and Robert E. Lane '39, former president of the Student Union. Other graduates working with them are Philip Bugby '39, Enno R. Hobbing '40, and George W. Phillips...