Word: cum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prepped at Milton Academy, graduating in 1918. He then spent a year on a ranch (developing into an incredibly inept cowboy, he says) before entering Harvard with the Class of 1923. He captained the third 150-pound crew in College history during his senior year and got his degree cum laude in History and Literature. He enrolled in the Law School, but found law so little to his liking that he welcomed the chance to become an assistant dean of freshmen...
Handy Andy. Few airmen ever tackled a tougher job than Damon at T.W.A. But few men knew more of the aviation business from all sides. Damon has flown planes, sold them, built them, operated them. New Hampshire-born, Damon went to Harvard ('18, cum laude) to be an astronomer. But when he learned to fly as an Army pilot, the aviation bug got him. He joined Curtiss Aeroplane, became boss of a St. Louis branch in ten years, rose to president in 1935. In the late 1930s he learned about commercial air transport by joining American Airlines as vice...
...class of '36. He majored in classics, and took his first Sanskrit course, "out of curiosity." In the spring of his first year, he was "dropped" for failing to show up at an examination. He caught up in his sophomore year, stayed on Dean's list and graduated cum laude in Classics with his class...
Hotch, a 1949 cum laude graduate of Exeter, was a Classics major at Harvard...
McCloy came out of Amherst cum laude in 1916 and headed for the Plattsburg military training camp. He came out of the war a captain, breezed through Harvard Law ('21), spent ten years ferreting out the facts to prove German guilt for World War I's "Black Tom" explosion, thus enabling his client, Bethlehem Steel, and others, to collect $26 million in damages from German funds held by the alien property custodian. At 35, he married Ellen Zinsser, sister of Mrs. Lewis Douglas...