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340 DEGREES AWARDED DRAFT-HUNTED STUDENTS

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Harvard University today announced the award of academic degrees to 340 students. This is the first time since the last war that Harvard has granted regular degrees in October. While the University is on a 12-months wartime schedule, degrees will be granted in February, June, and October.

In the College bachelor degrees were awarded to 129 students, of whom 92 received the A.B. degree and 37 the S.B. degree. Three men received the A.B. degree summa cum laude: Isadore I. Hirschman, Jr., of Huntington, W. Va., in Mathematics; Richard J. Hyman, of Malden, Mass., in History and Literature; and Robert P. Ulin, of Brookline, Mass., in History. Eighteen students received the A.B. or S.B. degree magna cum laude; 38, cum laude.

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