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There are now ten countries in which the United States has ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary. Seven of these ambassadors are college graduates. Curtis Guild '81, the minister to Russia, graduated with a summa cum laude degree. Robert Bacon '80 was until recently United States minister to France, but resigned-this post to become a Fellow of the University...
...those who graduated from College with a "cum laude", 66 out of 290, or 22.7 percent., won this honor in the Law School; of those who graduated from college with a "magna cum laude", 80 out of 204, or 39.2 percent; and of those who graduated with a "summa cum laude," 22 out of 34, or 64.7 per cent...
...Thus," he concluded, "the chance of obtaining a 'cum laude' in the Law School is almost ten times as great for a man with a 'summa cum laude' in college as for a man who graduated with a plain degree; for a man with a 'magna cum laude' it is six times as great; and for a man with a 'cum laude' between three and four times as great...
...question that unless one attains, by hard work, in some department of learning, high standing in college, he cannot hope for great success in his professional school. In the Law School the chance of obtaining a cum laude is almost ten times as great for a man with a summa cum laude in college as for a man who graduated with a plain degree; for the man with a magna cum laude it is six times as great, and for a man with a cum laude between three and four times as great...
...during the past twelve years, it was found that of those who received the simple A.B. seven per cent. attained the grade of A in the Law School; of A.B.'s cum laude, 20 per cent.; of A.B.'s magna cum laude, 40 per cent.; and of A.B.'s summa cum laude, 57 per cent. These figures become more impressive when it is added that of the 30 who received the simple A.B. and who graduated from the Law School with the grade of A, eight had entered College in their Senior year, and hence could not graduate cum laude...