Word: cum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Husky John Brookes taught school in Washington for six years to put himself through George Washington University, left in 1913 with a gridiron reputation, an M. A. and LL.B. cum laude. Going to Atlanta as a stranger to practice law, he attracted both friends and clients by acting as line coach for the Georgia Tech football team under famed John William Heisman. In 1917 he went to Pittsburgh to form a legal department for the Mellon-controlled Koppers Co. (coal, coke, gas, tar), rose to be a vice president and director. Through his friend Cyrus Eaton of Republic Steel Corp...
...September, Keppel will take up his new post as assistant dean in charge of Freshmen. As an undergraduate, he was active in extra-curricular activities. Last spring he graduated Cum Laude in English, his field of concentration...
Governor Saltonstall promptly appointed to succeed Mr. Reardon, Walter Francis Downey, headmaster of Boston English High School, like Mr. Reardon, a Roman Catholic. Trim, white-haired Walter Downey, 54, a summa cum laude graduate of Amherst and a crack tennis player, sits on the bench with coaches and players at English High football games, in his excitement twists & squirms as hard as anyone on the field...
Captains of the crew are traditionally strong in heart and head as well as arm. No exception was Barklie McKee Henry, Harvard's 1924 crew captain. "Buz" Henry, who was also Ibis of the Lampoon, and librettist of the Hasty Pudding show, graduated cum laude, published a novel, married rich Harry Payne Whitney's daughter Barbara...
Less than three years ago Mr. Bessie was an editor of this paper. He received a Harvard magna cum laude degree, and "Jazz Journalism," which is dedicated to a member of the History department, is illustrative of the shallow scholarship that Harvard too often teaches. Mr. Bessie's research is flawless, but his naivete is stupendous. In the entire work the words "morbidity," "propaganda," "sadism," "malice" and "fabrication" do not once appear. Mr. Bessie seems unaware of persecutions and deliberate hoaxes for editorial or sensational reasons. He gives credit to the ingenuity of none but the most scurvy editors...