Word: cum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though he ran up a 95 average and became the school's first student to qualify for college at the end of his junior year, he abandoned music as a profession. He has since picked up piano and guitar by ear. After graduating from St. John's cum laude in 1947, he decided to become an astrophysicist, partly, he now thinks, because he wanted to get out of the shadow of his father and uncle. In graduate school at Columbia he soured on astronomy, took his master's degree in higher mathematics with a thesis...
...affairs and the fine arts. He was born in Paris, France, but moved as a child to New York where his father worked as an architect. Although most of his friends did not remember him as having specific desires for a political career, Herter did major in government, graduating cum laude. "He always had a yen for foreign affairs," one roommate commented...
...stranger still. Perhaps the strangest writers' colony on the North American continent is located in rolling corn-hog country on the outskirts of Marshall, Ill. (pop. 2,960) and looks rather like a struggling boys' camp, with two rows of barracks, a central cookhouse-cum-library and a pond swimming pool. Its founder and reigning queen is a bright-eyed, single-minded housemother of the literary arts named Lowney Handy...
...rumors about what a CRIMSON competition does to marks should recall a survey taken last year by President Pusey which states that CRIMSON executives have the highest percentage on the Dean's list of any other undergraduate organization--53.8 per cent. In English alone, four Crimeds were graduated magna cum laude...
...eight children) of an Irish-born immigrant who started out as a laborer, entered New Jersey politics, became a city commissioner and later Newark's director of public safety. As a schoolboy, young Bill helped the family income by delivering milk, making change for trolley riders. Graduating cum laude from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, he won a scholarship to Harvard Law School, got his degree...