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...value of the study of Anglo-Saxon, inevitable fate of any man having aspirations toward a Summa Cum Laude in the Department of English in Harvard College, is questioned by the Daily Princetonian in a recent editorial. One gathers that the situation is even more stringent at that University than here at Cambridge. The Princetonian decries the fact that "undergraduates are forced to take this course"' and the Princetonian objects, although conscious that such objections are likely to fall on deaf ears...
...Summa Cum Laude is no longer the acme of scholastic endeavor," Professor Taussig concluded, "and men can be prepared for graduate schools in three years, if the first year is not made to deal with elementary subjects. Those men who desire four years of academic work can take a year in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Those who do not can be given a sufficient education in three years...
...Science of Jurispudence were graduated by this School. A feature of the Law School Commencement this year was the awarding of degrees with honors in the same manner as that traditionally followed in the College. H.J. Friendly '23 was the first law student in Harvard University to be graduated summa cum laude. He also received the Fay Diploma, which has long been the highest honor in the Law School...
...highest academic distinction in Harvard College, the A.B. or S.B. degree summa cum laude, was conferred on only six men. Prescott Niles Arnold, of Milton, Eugene Lewis Bleiweiss, of Cleveland Heights, O., Alston Hurd Chase, of Salem, Milton Irving Katz, of Brooklyn. N.Y., John Robert Richardson, of Dorchester, and Henry Franklin Williams, of Cambridge were the men who received this honor...
...addition to H.J. Friendly who received a degree summa cum laude, the Law School honored six men with degrees magna cum laude and 18 cum laude. The maguas were awarded to the following law students: Lawrence Soule Apsey '24, of Cambridge. Walter Colquitt Carter, a graduate of the University of Georgia, of Atlanta, Ga. Charles-Sprague Smith Epstein. College of the City of New York, of New York. Benjamin Goodman Jr. Princeton, of Memphis, Tenn., Livingston Hall. University of Chicago, of Chicago, and Frederick August Otto Schwartz '24, former president of the CRIMSON of Greenwich, Conn...