Word: cum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mansfield, who graduated from Harvard summa cum laude, argues that a system "corrupted" by grade inflation will ultimately hurt the student a good deal more than it will help...
...guide to the good life has a few inviolable rules. Follow them and you, too, can graduate cum laude general studies...
...experience that Sawhill brings to his demanding new job covers government, finance and higher education. A 1958 cum laude graduate of Princeton (where he wrestled and played hockey), he worked for Merrill Lynch, then entered N.Y.U.'s graduate school of business administration to earn a Ph.D. in economics while also holding down jobs of assistant dean and assistant professor. Returning to business, he rose to become $100,000-a-year senior vice president of Baltimore's Commercial Credit Co. before joining the Federal Government two years ago. As energy administrator, he was known as a "tough manager...
This week, however, John R. Marquand, assistant dean of the College, gave the council a memorandum that showed under the proposed guidelines there were no less than 13 different ways to graduate; that some of the ways could overlap; and that a cum laude in general studies could conceivably be more desirable than a departmental cum...
...born in Lanesboro, Pa., in 1908, and graduated summa cum laude from Amherst in 1930. Amherst gave him an honorary doctorate...