Word: cum
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...Cum Laude: Charles Fowled Adamson, Harold Francis 1a Croix, Jr. Paul Schneider, Stephen Bruce Smart, Jr., and William Edward Sullivan...
...provincial towns when Caesar had crossed the Rubicon?" asked the examiner when Q came up for his viva. "Well, at first they hardly knew which way to turn," said Q hopefully. "That will do, Sir. Good morning," said the examiner. Q failed to get a "first" (equivalent to summa cum laude) but was given an Oxford lectureship, with Virgil and Aristophanes as his subjects ("I tried to communicate my delight in them rather than to discuss niceties of textual criticism...
Lieutenant Colonel Robert R. Bowie, AUS, former Assistant Attorney General of Maryland and currently in Europe with the American Group of Allied Control Council, will take up duties as professor of Law here effective July 1, Dean James M. Landis revealed Sunday. Bowie graduated magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1934 and subsequently entered the service of the War Department with civilian status as legal assistant to the Headquarters Army Service Force...
Though he doesn't look it, Joe has blue-blood ancestry. His branch of the Goulds has been in New England since 1635, and he is related to the Lowell, Lawrence, Storer, and Vroom families. Harvard was the appropriate college for him, and he graduated "magna cum difficultate" along with Conrad Aiken, Gluyas Williams, Howard Lindsay, and his "most distinguished classmate," Richard Whitney...
Smith College (Northampton, Mass.), perhaps the most democratic of the select sisterhood of Eastern women's colleges, last week appointed its first Negro teacher. Sociologist Adelaide Cromwell Hill, 26, who got her B.A. at Smith cum laude in 1940, proceeded to an M.A. at University of Pennsylvania, and is now working on a Ph.D. at Harvard, will join a faculty which already includes two Chinese and a Japanese...