Word: cum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...magna cum is now obtained by one "who has stood in grade A in one half of his college work and has not fallen below C in any study. This is changed from the old rule of "80 per cent. for the whole college course, or 85 per cent. for the last three years." The cum laude cannot be received by anyone who has fallen below grade C in any study...
...performed some really meritorious scientific work in practical astronomy and mathematics of that class. The trustees felt it their duty to show her some recognition of their appreciation of her work in the interest of science, and they yesterday conferred upon her the title of "Doctor of Philosophy, cum laude...
...special meeting of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, held yesterday, President E. Rockwood Hoar in the chair, it was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in conferring the degree of Bachelor of Sciences, cum laude, out of course, on Pierre Cheeseman Du Bois of the class of 1865; in the appointment of George Lincoln Walton, M. D., as special clinical instructor in the disease of the nervous system; James Jackson Putnam, M. D., instructor in the diseases of the nervous system; Frederick Eugene Rice, M. D., M. R. C. V. S., instructor in anatomy and materia...
...shivering labor. Well, the field was shoveled, despite the alarming number of desertions, and the men to whose efforts this great work was due, watched the subsequent game with Yale with feelings of well deserved satisfaction. The elements may be against us, but to paraphrase "Life," "Praegelida set dies cum Harvard sinistra...
...particular course of study, but we do think that in both instances the true purpose and meaning of a liberal college education is misunderstood. Are we here to prepare for our professions? Then what do the professional schools signify? What we want of Harvard College is not a summa cum laude or a diploma and degree, but the best liberal education that she can afford us. We cannot afford to graduate with the thought that our education is complete. It is only begun. What does "Commencement" mean? We, at best, only can lay at college a respectable foundation upon which...