Word: cum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born and schooled in Paris, where his American parents were art students. Spindly young Chris was nine when he arrived in the U.S., found himself two years ahead of his age group at New York's Browning School. At Harvard he concentrated on fine arts, graduated ('15) cum laude, then enrolled concurrently at Columbia University's School of Architecture and New York's School of Fine and Applied Art. A Harvard classmate talked him into taking a minor Foreign Service job with the U.S. embassy in Berlin, and World War I turned the diplomatic pastime into...
William James encouraged her to take a degree and go on to medical school. Probably out of respect for him, and out of no desire on her part, Gertrude applied to Johns Hopkins. In 1898, a year later than her class, she graduated magna cum laude. Then she went to live in Baltimore, went to annoy and embarass the young men students...
...plan currently under consideration would set up a compulsory senior tutorial on a cross-departmental basis and would allow non-Honors Seniors the option of writing a long essay and taking a general examination to regain Honors standing. Perkins described the plan as "providing a more respectable cum laude than the one in General Studies...
...Pontiac Special (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). An animated and skillfully illustrated lecture in original musical comedy by Phil Silvers, a magna cum laude graduate of the old school; with songs by Broadway's Ronny Graham...
...reported $750,000 a year, he lives modestly in suburban Teaneck, NJ. with the wife he married at 19 and their four daughters. While recording such jukebox hits as Lone Letters in the Sand and Friendly Persuasion, he attended Columbia University (majoring in speech) and last June graduated magna cum laude. Though a Tennessee-raised descendant of rugged Daniel Boone, he does not drink, smoke or cuss. On occasion he gives guest sermons to Church of Christ congregations across the country...