Word: cum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expecting a flood of applicants for the honor of speaking at June Commencement, the Committee on Commencement Parts, headed by Mason Hammond '25, professor of Greek and Latin, yesterday announced that trials will be held next month to determine the one of two fortunate "cum laudes" who will address their classmates in June...
...Inwardness & Absurdity." On the surface Kierkegaard's life was both short and dull. Born in Copenhagen in 1813, he spent his college years in dilettantism, passed a course of theological studies cum laude, but was never ordained, fell in love but did not dare ger married, used up his inheritance in publishing his books, and died in 1855 at the age of 42-just when his money had run out. But that was Kierkegaard's life on the surface. His real life was a long, exciting, bitter, lonely struggle within himself. The fruit of that' struggle...
...cum laude, 25 percent were in the Natural Sciences, 58 percent in the Social Sciences, and 17 percent in the Humanities. Of the S.B.'s, 7 percent were in the Humanities, 35 percent in the Social Sciences, and 53 percent in the Natural Sciences
...early summer of 1939, when the bombings of Chungking began, Theodore H. ("Teddy") White* was a young man just a year out of Harvard, summa cum laude, who had been traveling around the world on a history scholarship. He joined the Chinese in their heroic retreat to the mountains, taking a job in their Ministry of Information. Within a few months he left the Ministry, became a TIME correspondent for the rest of the war in China. Pain without Fear. He suffered dysentery and malaria. Once all his possessions were destroyed by bombs. Occasionally he was called home...
...Class of 1938, Cum Laude: Jacob Horowitz, (General Studies...