Word: cum
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...Faculty yesterday approved without dissent the extensive liberalization of the rules governing tutorial and the granting of the cum laude in General Studies...
...program, members of the Department agree that the plan to open tutorial to all concentrators represents a substantial improvement. The Faculty in Social Relations has already met twice to discuss the proposals, and in particular, White and the other professors favor the changes in the requirements for the cum laude degree in General Studies, and feel that adoption of the proposals might well stimulate more serious work among the students...
Honors in General Studies would be revivified under Professor Gill's plan. Uniform requirements would supplant the current confusion about cum laude in General Studies. At present, departments have adopted widely differing policies about nomination for the degree; should the Faculty legislation pass, a candidate for Honors in General Studies must receive Honor grades in his field of concentration and two subsidiary fields...
...History Department has approved "Within certain modifications" the Faculty proposal to alter the Honors-non-Honors distinction and change the requirements for the cum laude degree in General Studies. The Department, largest in undergraduate enrollment, is the first to announce general endorsement of the plan...
...plan, suggested by Richard T. Gill '48, Senior Tutor of Leverett House, all students would be eligible for tutorial; and Honors students would be distinguished from non-Honors students only at the completion of all College work. Students who have 11 1/2 Honor grades could also be graduated with cum laude in General Studies, without the permission of a Department...