Word: cum
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Piston has been on the Harvard faculty since 1926, after being graduated summa cum laude in 1924 and receiving the John Knowles Paine '69 fellowship for 1924-26. He studied in Paris in 1935 on a Guggenheim fellowship, and is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...news was the civil war raging between Pompey and Caesar. There was a sharp cartoon about Cicero, whose indecision in the crisis was lampooned in a caption, "Otium Cum Dignitate" (inaction with dignity). There had been strange doings at the Circus Maximus: two gladiators got tangled up with the umpires and decapitated one of them. The weather forecast: "Frigidus." Such was the state of the world last week as reported in Britain's only Latin newspaper, Acta Diurna (Daily Register...
Pease is retiring and Hammond is replacing him. Post, the only man ever to make summa cum laude in three subjects, is also retiring. Bloch, the medieval Latin specialist, will be on leave for the fall term, and Dow will be on leave for the spring term...
...Summa Cum and Phi Beta...
...Fitch and Vincent E. Starzinger, both seniors, and James R. Schlesinger '50 1G. Fitch's home is Las Vegas, New Mexico; he lives in Lowell House and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Schlesinger entered the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences this fall after graduating summa cum laude...