Word: cum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...families of graduating "Grotties." President-Emeritus Lowell of Harvard made the "prize address." Dr. Peabody distributed 23 ordinary diplomas, one of which went to John Aspindall Roosevelt. 18 years old and 6 ft. 3 in. in stocking feet, youngest Presidential son. To others the venerable rector gave seven diplomas cum laude, one magna cum laude and 39 prizes...
...Trust Co. In 1914, playing left-end for Harvard in the opening game in the Yale Bowl, young Coolidge scooped up a Yale fumble, almost on Harvard's goal line, and ran 98 yards for a touchdown. A year later Harvard graduated him, Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude...
...outward appearance a true Harvard man. Hoeing confesses to the heathen background of an Amherst A. B. (Cum Laude 1929). He smokes innumerable cigarettes, without removing them from his mouth; from this is derived, no doubt, in an attempt to escape the smoke, the tilt of his head and the squint of his eyes. Nights he is to be seen returning from Hazen's beer parlor, an aged grey slouch hat perched on his head, and the eternal butt in his mouth...
...this is open to just condemnation by those idealistic individuals who denounce any system of honors, or even of grading, on the grounds that it obscures the true objects of education in a search for glory. General honors are obviously sought by those priggish souls who value a "cum" solely for vanity's sake, rather than for any real initiative and genuine scholarship which such recognition ought certainly to represent. Moreover, the similar terminology of the degree "cum laude" in General Studies, and of that in Special Studies does not offer an adequate or equitable initiative requisite for each. Under...
While the abolition of general honors would work a hardship on those young hopefuls who harbor a secret desire to startle father and mother with a degree "cum laude," it would certainly be a welcome measure to tutors, and to those few intellectually honest scholars who want credit only where credit is due. The new regime would do well to overthrow this tottering, tradition-supported anachronism...