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This very exclusive Harvard Chapter passed right over two of the first seven ranking men. That June, one was graduate magna cum Iaude, and the other summa cum laude. One of the men entered Harvard Law School and was elected to the Harvard Law Review, than which there is no greater honor. The other man went out into the business world, and became one of the right-hand men to Mr. Gerald Swope...
...Summa Cum Laude...
...highest scholastic distinction in the College, the degree of Summa cum Laude, was awarded to 12 Seniors, the same number as received it last year. The proportion of the class receiving their degrees cum Laude or Magna cum Laude, on the other hand, shows a substantial increase over that of a year ago, bearing out a tendency which has been noticeable during the last decade. The number of awards with distinction has steadily risen, more than keeping pace with the increase in the number of degrees awarded...
...President King went through Amherst in three years, was graduated summa cum laude in 1903. He went to Harvard Law School, practiced in Boston. Notable were his Wartime activities, as a member of the Council of Defense committee on supplies; special assistant and later secretary to Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker. In 1919 he became secretary of President Wilson's Industrial Conference Board whose reports he prepared with Herbert Hoover and Owen D. Young. He is now chairman of Massachusetts' employment commission. In 1920 Lawyer King helped raise the Amherst Centennial Gift...
...Distinguished Service Professorships ($10,000 yearly minimum). President John Grier Hibben of Princeton is currently 70 and resigning and the Princeton trustees were pondering Dr. Compton as Dr. Hibben's successor. (Dr. Compton is one of three men who in all Princeton's history have won doctorates in physics summa cum laude. The others are Henry Norris Russell, Princeton astronomer, and Karl Taylor Compton [elder brother], president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) But young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of Chicago was persuasive. A Carnegie Foundation grant was available, and the University helped out further with equipment. So off put Distinguished...