Mediator James Francis

[archstanton543]

Lighten up, Francis.

 

[borg]

Mediation........Goodell all high pitched. Kessler throwing haymakers, "Go comatose for me baby"

 

[PatsFanSince74]

If Yale was anything like Harvard in those days, Summa Cum Laude meant a lot.

At Harvard, over half the students got Cum Laude. Magna meant you were quite good; that's what my main college girlfriend got, and she published a paper in the Journal of Biochemistry based on the senior thesis she wrote as a junior. Summa was a major honor -- I overheard one discussion as to which was a greater honor, Summa or a Rhodes Scholarship. Tom Schelling -- later a Nobel Laureate -- once spoke of being "honored" to participate in an oral exam for Summa status.

As for the MPP from the Kennedy School -- that proves he had decent quantitative skills. Otherwise, it doesn't add to what we already knew from the fact that he got a JD from an elite law school.

Yeah. Being a Harvard Summa is a big deal. There are so few of them that they get to be on the stage with those receiving Honorary Doctorates at graduation (at least they were back in the day...I haven't been to a Harvard graduation in a while).

 

[signbabybrady]

Anytime I see the name "Francis" I think of the movie "Stripes".

Way to "lighten up" the thread.