Word: cum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greatest injustice lies in the assignment of the degrees at commencement. According to the regulations any person who receives honors in any subject is entitled to a degree magna cum laude, and one who receives highest honors gets a degree summa cum laude. This, at first sight, may appear fair enough, but if the subject is examined closely the great injustice is at once apparent. A man who has special ability in any one line, but who is decidedly inferior in general knowledge, outranks a man of good general ability, in whom no one taste is specially developed. For instance...
...copper-colored Harvard graduate get an Indian summa-cum-laude...
...tell you what I mean to do. Leave off my lazy habits in the first place, smoke no cigars, drink no wine, own no armchair, and stick to the law, Tom, without a poney. I've had an easy time in college, and have enjoyed well the 'Otium cum dignitate' - the learned leisure of a scholar's life - always despising digging, you know, and what with ticking, screwing and deading, am candidate for a piece of parchment tomorrow, certifying that I am admitted to be by all A. B., which being interpreted is A Booby, a passport all the world...
...Arts, after examination, on 2; of Engineer of Mines, on 15; of Civil Engineer, on 8; of Bachelor of Philosophy, in the scientific course, on 22; in the political science course, on 10; of Doctor of Philosophy, on 3; of Bachelor of Laws, on 102: of Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, on 21; of Doctor of Medicine, on 120; total, 351. It is claimed that Columbia College has a larger number of students in attendance than any educational institution on this side of the Atlantic...
...Cum primum emptum...