Word: cum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...must register their intention with the Dean not later than November 1. Exceptions may be found in a few instances where a special committee has set an earlier date for a particular Division or Department. The above regulation does not apply to men intending to secure a cum laude in general studies. All registration cards must bear not only the signature of the Dean, but also a complete list of all grades received since entering Harvard College...
There are now ten countries in which the United States has ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary. Seven of these ambassadors are college graduates. Curtis Guild '81, the minister to Russia, graduated with a summa cum laude degree. Robert Bacon '80 was until recently United States minister to France, but resigned-this post to become a Fellow of the University...
President Lowell examined the records of all Harvard men who graduated from the Law school for the twenty years previous to 1910. He found that of those men who graduated from College with a plain degree-that is without a "cum laude"-38 out of 577, or 6.6 per cent, obtained "cum laude" in the Law School. Of those who graduated from College with a "cum laude", 66 out of 290, or 22.7 percent., won this honor in the Law School; of those who graduated from college with a "magna cum laude", 80 out of 204, or 39.2 percent...
...Thus," he concluded, "the chance of obtaining a 'cum laude' in the Law School is almost ten times as great for a man with a 'summa cum laude' in college as for a man who graduated with a plain degree; for a man with a 'magna cum laude' it is six times as great; and for a man with a 'cum laude' between three and four times as great...
...interesting in themselves. Story-tellers and playwrights are not expected to be scholars, are they? Yet Owen Wister, '82, was in the first quarter of his class. Henry M. Rideout, '99, author of "The Siamese Cat", "Beached Keels", and other justly admired tales, took his bachelor's degree magna cum laude. Of the three most successful and most distinguished Harvard playwrights, Knoblauch, of '96, although he won no scholastic distinction, was well known to all who knew him as a deep and thorough student of the drama. Edward Sheldon, of 1908, took his degree magna cum laude...