The Yale-NUS College has become the second institution here to adopt the Latin honours system, a degree classification used by American universities such as Harvard and Yale.  The system, which indicates the level of distinction a graduate has earned, uses nomenclature such as summa cum laude and magna cum laude. SMU also uses the terms.  But, unlike SMU which does not limit the number of students who can earn Latin honours, Yale-NUS has imposed a 35 per cent cap.