Word: cum
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...Summa cum Laude awards among those graduating went to Fred Norman Fishman, in Engineering Sciences, and Hellmut Joseph Juretschke, in Electronic Physics, George Seiden, Peter S. Berger, Irving Constant, William H. White, Edward B. Burke, and Saul Touster, were the men receiving Magna cum Laude degrees...
...Perfect Life. After a stay at his father's sanitorium in New Hampshire, young Sidis returned to Harvard. His lifelong physical awkwardness was already apparent. His "marked distrust of people" did not prevent him from graduating cum laude in 1914, aged 16. Reporters bypassed such classmates as Leverett Saltonstall and Sumner Welles in their eagerness to interview the prodigy. He told them: "I want to live the perfect life. The only way to live the perfect life is to live it in seclusion. I have always hated crowds." But he stayed on to breeze through Harvard Law School...
...sweltering Tercentenary Theatre yesterday Harvard conferred 251 degrees, the smallest number since 1875, before a crowd estimated at over 10,000. Only 92 of the degrees went to graduating seniors, the smallest number since 1861; a total of 62 received A.B. degrees, and 31 S.B. The only summa cum lande is Konrad Wise, of Reverly Hills, California, who received highest honors in classical literature...
Slight and blond, young Viereck was a onetime student at Harvard Law School, a graduate magna cum laude of Harvard College. There he had helped found and edit a new liberal monthly magazine, the Harvard Guardian...
...affable Abbot Dunne became abbot in 1935 there were 72 brethren at Gethsemani; today there are 151. Trappists in the U.S. total 275. Most men who enter are quite young (15 to 20). The Order does not normally draw professional men, but Superior Mary James Fox (Harvard '18, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), who entered the Order 17 years ago, worked for the U.S. Treasury, after Naval service during World War I. "I was all ready to become a millionaire," he says, "when I felt a force turning me the other...