Word: cum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty members who voted this week to extend candidacy for Cum Laude in General Studies to all thesis writing seniors seem to have made a series of bad guesses. In an attempt to throw out any departmental control over the granting or withholding of the degree they touched a raw departmental nerve--the tutorial administrator and thesis advisor's conception of a senior's psychology...
...then that the majority argued: it is much better to unsnarl the whole administrative tangle by legislating automatic eligibility for students with the proper collection of grades. Yet the opposition was quick to point out that to lift the restriction setting the choice for C.L.G.S. or thesis-cum-tutorial an early deadline meant that seniors could drop the thesis at any stage they wished. And, the opposition remarked darkly, many seniors would...
...senior who chose to write a thesis but was unable to complete it for reasons implicit in the thesis material or otherwise outside a momentary disaffection with the tas' These would not be degrees demanding any other grades than the department's usual requirements; they would not be degrees Cum Laude in General Studies at all, but the ordinary Honors of the field...
...departments to tutor absolutely all non-Honors students, it would undoubtedly have met the fate the Tuesday legislation is likely to meet. It passed because it allowed department discretition in determining who might be excluded from tutorial through failure to satisfy rock-bottom criteria. The method of liberalizing the cum loud degree suggested here would permit like discretion--although in this case the Faculty should add the explicit enjoinder that the departments be lenient and flexible in judging a student's plea for release from the thesis. Again, practices would doubtless be "arbitrary" and would differ considerably among the departments...
...Faculty decided that candidacy for Honors in a field should no longer exclude a student from candidacy for a cum laude degree in General Studies Under the new legislation, seniors who start theses but do not complete them, or whose theses are too poor to warrant an Honors degree in the field of concentration, will automatically be awarded a C.L.G.S. if their course grades are good enough...