Word: cum
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...fine. He paid, and then moved on to another trouble spot. Montgomery, where he was roughed up by that city's race rioters. Kansas City-.born Bud Trillin came to TIME by way of Yale, where he was chairman of the Yale Daily News and magna cum laude in English in 1957. Among his early assignments were short stints in our London and Paris bureaus, where his most memorable assignment was the 1958 Algerian generals' revolt, during which a rifle-bearing Arab shot at him. He now regards that experience as casual...
...School Faculty has decided to cease ranking students whose average is below the cum lauds grade...
...graduate magna cum laude of a ranking Jesuit institution, Fordham, I observe that the fatal intellectual schism that rends Catholic colleges has seldom been more openly revealed than in your story on Notre Dame's Father Hesburgh...
...summa cum laude at Northwestern, Pete Peterson went into advertising as a market researcher, soon caught the eye of the research-happy McCann-Erickson agency. He was made a McCann vice president at 27, shortly after became right-hand man to McCann's President Marion Harper (who himself was named to the agency's top spot at 32). Distressed at reports that Bell & Howell was trying to lure Peterson away. Harper three years ago informed top McCann executives that Peterson was his chosen successor. But Peterson ignored the offer, jumped to Bell & Howell when the bait was sweetened...
...also revealed yesterday that the original plan for the new diplomas would have rendered the Honors inscription into English--"with distinction," "with high distinction," "with highest distinction." But protest by members of the Administrative Board preserved the traditional cum laude notations...