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...Verba '53, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education and CUE chairman, postponed action on another motion that would require the registrar to drop a magna or cum laude candidate's two lowest half-course grades when calculating grade point averages. The "drop" rule would not apply to summa candidates...
...motion as it stands would also eliminate the present requirement that summa candidates obtain grades of A or A- in one full or two half-courses in each of the General Education areas outside his concentration...
...committee failed to agree conclusively on standards for summa cum laude honors and whether the College should disregard freshman year grades in computing honors qualifications. It decided after 45 minutes of discussion to forward a series of alternative honors standards to the registrar, who will study their likely effect on the numbers of summa recipients and present findings to CUE shortly...
...proposal called for a straight grade-point-average requirement across all grades for "Latin" honors such as magna and summa, and another suggested leaving only summa and "cum laude in general studies" as honors with college-wide requirements. The system now requires all honors candidates to both fulfill their particular departmental requirements and achieve grade averages set by the College in areas of "distribution" outside their area of concentration...
...knew People prose intimately, for the parody's command of its style is masterful. The writing appears to require no thought either to read or write; it glides along effortlessly, often hilarious in its sprightliness. On a six-year-old genius: "Graduating from Harvard at five, the swaddling-swathed summa soon had six degrees safely tucked away under his rompers." In a review of a new Beethoven performance: "Here is another album demonstrating that Beethoven is anything but ready to roll over...