Word: cum
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Death at an Early Age is based on Kozol's eight-month service as a $20-a-day substitute teacher at the Christopher Gibson School in the mostly Negro Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. A summa cum laude Harvard graduate and former Rhodes Scholar, Kozol was badly shaken by the experience-which ended abruptly when he was fired after reading to his class a poem by Negro Langston Hughes that was not on the teachers' approved reading list; it suggested that tenement tenants might justifiably put the slug on their landlords...
Cumulative averages and class standings will no longer be kept for undergraduates. The Faculty has not yet decided how it will determine the honors degrees of cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude...
...year after graduating cum laude, Mendoza and a fellow student founded Bufete Industrial. "Our first important job," says Mendoza, "came in 1951, when we engineered, designed and supervised construction of a sodium-sulphate plant in northern Mexico." Only a few more steps were necessary before Mendoza and his rapidly growing staff were ready to offer their present soup-to-nuts service...
...Lodge early knew the ambiance of power. His namesake and grandfather was the scholarly, fiercely principled Senator from Massachusetts, who took over as young Cabot's father and tutor after his own father, a poet, died when the boy was seven. After zipping through Harvard in three years cum laude, Lodge, on his grandfather's advice, shunned law as the natural route into politics and entered journalism as a reporter for the old Boston Evening Transcript. He proved an able one and moved on to the Washington Bureau of the New York Herald Tribune, where his skills...
...Regrets. Mosbacher graduated cum laude from Choate, went on to Dartmouth, where he majored in economics, settled for C's, became known as a deft hand with a bridge deck and dice, and led the varsity sailing club to two straight national intercollegiate championships. Commissioned an ensign in the Navy in 1943, he applied for the Small Craft Training Center in Miami. The Navy, in its infinite wisdom, sent him to radar school instead, but Bus finally wrangled a transfer to the carrier Liscome Bay-a transfer that fell through when doctors found he had a hernia...