Word: cum
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...Grace graduated Magna Cum Lande in 1930, after attending Andover Academy. He returned to Harvard some years later and obtained his Master's degree in 1935 and a Ph.D. in 1938. A resident of Milton, Lt. Grace was married in 1935 to Miss Priscilla Bartol, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John W. Bartol, also of Milton. His wife survives...
...College bachelor degrees were awarded to 129 students, of whom 92 received the A.B. degree and 37 the S.B. degree. Three men received the A.B. degree summa cum laude: Isadore I. Hirschman, Jr., of Huntington, W. Va., in Mathematics; Richard J. Hyman, of Malden, Mass., in History and Literature; and Robert P. Ulin, of Brookline, Mass., in History. Eighteen students received the A.B. or S.B. degree magna cum laude; 38, cum laude...
...mother's sides. Putnam has six children; Saltonstall, five. Like his longtime acquaintance the Governor, Springfield's mayor is a product of Back Bay boyhood, Boston's snooty Noble and Greenough private day school, of Harvard (where Saltonstall starred as an athlete, Putnam as a magna cum laude) and of Harvard's best social clubs (Hasty Pudding and Fly for Putnam, Hasty Pudding and Porcellian for Saltonstall). Putnam served as ensign and lieutenant (j.g.) in the U.S. Navy during World War I, while fellow alumnus Saltonstall was busy as a lieutenant in the field artillery...
...cum laude heads are better than one, especially when they belong to a pair of twin Radcliffe graduates. Such was the decision of the Committee on Scholarships, which this week included the sisters Priscilla and Frances Baxter, twin student architects, among the thirteen students in the Graduate School of Design who wer awarded scholarships totalling $7,275 for the present academic year...
...Brooklyn, where anything can happen, a street cleaner last week graduated magna cum laude from Brooklyn College. After a hard day's work in the gutters of Bensonhurst, bespectacled young Isadore Goldstein, 23, took off his whitewing uniform, put on cap & gown, marched up to Brooklyn College's commencement platform to take a B.A. and a graduate scholarship for proficiency in social science. Next day he went back to his street sweeping...