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Four men were graduated from the College this morning with the highest scholastic honor that Harvard can bestow the Summa Cum Laude degree of Bachelor of Arts or Sciences...
...class is the hope and joy of the tutorial system as conducted at Harvard. The present incentive to attain Honors and Distinction is undoubtedly responsible for the increase in likely candidates for Phi Beta Kappa. Wheather it is the familiar watch chain symbol or the magic, "cum," "magna" or "summa," which attracts undergraduates to excel in such a secondary commodity as book learning is not important. The results are the same, and the urge inspired by the same ideals. At any rate Phi Beta Kappa finds itself in the rather pleasant position of having a wealth of candidates when practically...
...late William Everett in his preparatory school days at Quincy, he was prominent as an undergraduate in the scholastic and social life of the University, being a member of the Dickey, the Pudding and the Fly clubs as well as the Phi Beta Kappa Society and taking his degree summa cum laude in History...
...undergraduate. The Yale News was probably not aware of the fast that this frugal array of courses, combined with a corresponding number of Latin courses, and a couple of courses in ancient history, and the necessary intelligence in wielding the facts contained therein leads occasionally to a degree summa cum laudte Now the truth is out. And yet I suspect that had I not been fortunate enough to present three years of Greek upon entrance to Harvard, I could have found solace in other Greek courses more elementary, and had I been fortunate to have studied Greek in my infancy...
...restrictive option of either learning the language by extra-classroom methods or enrolling in that course which of all courses hold least attraction for the average man, interested in English literature though he may be--Beginning Anglo-Saxon. The result is that often even an illusory hope of a Summa is crushed in its natal travail: a half year spent in the acquisition of a tongue which may be an asset to some but is certainly not an intellectual necessity for all, is frequently considered so valuable that it cannot be sacrificed, even though the ultimate goal be Honors...