Word: cum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...case supposed (and such a case has actually occurred in the Senior class), the student if he gets 1/2 per cent more gets a "magna;" in other words, he either gets a magna or only a common degree; he is entirely ruled out from all chance for a "cum laude." This is a manifest injustice, and should be corrected at once...
...account of study, he would read the Dig's coat of arms for him. "Mr. President, I would have on my shield a representation of Commencement Day, and I should be delivering the best speech given for years; on one side, supporting the shield, would be a degree, summa cum laude; on the other, the President handing me a tutorship in Greek; for a motto, 'Conquer the Greek particle...
...catulas blande cum lingua lambere temptant - and when they try to lamb the cubs with the bland tongue...