Word: cum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average, earned a master's at Western Reserve, and is the science librarian of Oberlin College. Ragan A. Henry, 29, son of a Kentucky carpenter's helper, came from a family with an income of $3,000. He won $4,600 in scholarships at Harvard, graduated magna cum laude ('56), went on to Harvard Law ('61), is a Philadelphia lawyer...
Harold C. Haizlip, 28, son of a porter in Washington, D.C., went to work at the age of twelve to supplement a family income of $2,800. Amherst gave him a scholarship and he graduated cum laude ('57) with an honors thesis written in ancient Greek on "The Greek Concept of Eros." He got a Woodrow Wilson fellowship, earned his master's degree in teaching at Harvard in 1959. Married to a Wellesley girl, he is now working for a Ford Foundation project to help modernize Boston schools...
...Faculty has agreed to continue the liberalized requirements for the degree of Cum Laude in General Studies that were voted last fall. There is little question, however, that CLGS will be subjected to a searching re-examination this spring and next year...
...students who were graduated cum laude in general studies last June, 50 entered the program after Nov. 1, 1962. Thirty of these had given up on theses. The other 20 had been refused departmental honors, but still had enough A's and B's to get CLGS...
...worked hard at swimming and football, but enjoyed only moderate success in them. Although undeniably quick and bright, his academic record was generally mediocre, and he made little impression on Faculty members. Yet despite the over-all mediocrity of his record, Kennedy did well enough senior year to graduate cum laude--better than 70 per cent of his classmates. And his thesis on appeasement at Munich earned a magna and became a best-seller...