Word: cum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until after World War I (where, he says, he was wounded when a case of salmon fell on his foot-"It gives me a picturesque limp on rainy days") that he went through the University of Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude. As soon as he could he headed for Cambridge University, there "to walk over door sills that had been worn by 600 years of students and to sit in lecture rooms where Marlowe and Milton had sat." He had long since made up his mind what his life's work would...
...played string bass in the orchestra, becoming president of the Picrian Sodality in his senior year, and trombone in the Band, of which he was made conductor. These extra-curricular activities did not keep Anderson from being elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduating magna cum laude...
...pilfered church money and the old men have a sort of mystical experience as they grab for the coins, is contrived and hopelessly out of tune with the rest of the story. There are also two failures, only one of which seems intentional, to sell properly the "et cum spiritu tuo" response of the Mass. Kilty is a better actor than writer...
Motherhood, however, had its setbacks. Other Dean's Office figures show that no student who had interrupted her College career to have children were graduated with honors last June. Meanwhile, the unemcumbered married students boasted ten Cum Laude graduates and five magua award winners...
...already had their families before coming to Radcliffe, motherhood proved no obstacle. The first during her College career managed three children, her curriculum, had a GI husband; the second managed one child, the curriculum, and the husband. Both received cum laude degrees...