Word: cum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school for so many artists and shows aspiring to success in the battle for life on Broadway--will have turned out another graduate with an almost unanimous vote of Most Likely to Succeed in the Fall Class of '41. Olsen and Johnson and company have earned well their summa cum laude. Old father "Helzapoppin" has a worthy son to carry on his side-splitting traditions...
...everything but penmanship (only 5). At Harvard Law School, he broke the school record with an average mark of 87. But President Eliot of Harvard grumbled at letting him graduate: he was five months short of 21 years old. On Commencement morning the trustees suspended the rules, graduated him cum laude...
...dress rehearsal for the Senior thesis was worth while. Their sole complaint has been that the extra work was an unfair burden to impose on only part of the Juniors busy with review for divisionals. And there is the further gain that under the proposed plan not even sine cum laude candidates can slip out of Harvard without at least once having faced a lengthy problem demanding originality of thought and clarity of expression...
...first two stages may last for the duration of the student's Cambridge stay, be that three months or four years. Some very fine people have been known to start with Radcliffe and cling to it till graduation, and many of those have ended up graduating summa cum laude. And after a man has advanced to an advanced stage he may still drop back into a lesser period of development...
Like his boss Mr. Roosevelt, 55-year-old Mr. Biddle went to Groton, then to Harvard (1909 cum laude), then to Harvard Law (1911 cum laude). Traditionally he might have returned to Philadelphia, crusted city of his fathers, and, considering his high breeding, lived gently on his wealth. But the job he got as secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the great dissenter, gave him stouter ideas...