Word: cum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul's School, in New Hampshire, he captained the hockey team, excelled in scholarship, debate and occasional horseplay. At Yale, he developed these talents, added new ones, worried mightily over the nation. He was graduated summa cum laude, just in time...
...senior year he was editor-in-chief of the Amherst Student, and a Phi Beta Kappa who graduated summa cum laude. Last week Amherst gave boyish, blue-eyed Charles Cole, 39, the best first prize it had to offer-its presidency...
Witty, studious William Henry Hastie, 41, appointed by President Truman last week, has been dean of Washington's Howard University Law School for six years,' has long been a capable public servant. Born to a pharmacist father and schoolteacher mother in Knoxville, Tenn., he was graduated magna cum laude from Amherst, went on to Harvard Law School. There he became one of the few Negroes ever to serve on the Law Review, and one of Felix Frankfurter's Happy Hot Dogs...
...noted classicist, Hammond is one of the few men to hold teaching positions in two departments, being in both the Classics and the History departments. Among his other distinctions are a degree summa cum laude from the College, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the degrees of B. A. and B.Litt. from Balliol College, Oxford. From 1937 to 1939 he was Professor in Charge of the School of Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome...
...Dealers had never seen his like. He weighed 300 Ibs., stood six feet two; he was all of 24, he had been sent to Europe by Central Press as one of America's six brightest lads, had been graduated from Princeton with highest honors, from Harvard Law School cum laude. As a law clerk to his friend Justice Frankfurter, he squeezed himself into a chair, ran a fat hand through his dark wavy hair, and cocked an intelligent and cocky eye on the U.S. and its problems...