Word: cum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Danny was photography co-chairman in the fall of 1971 and he graduated magna cum laude in Government the following spring. In 1971, he helped found Cambridge Survey Research, Inc. with John Gorman, a fellow member of Dunster House. For the 1972 Presidential campaign, Porter and Gorman teamed up with Pat Caddell and became the most influential issues consultants in the McGovern campaign...
...animation, emotion and sly intelligence that has baffled India's leaders since he became President of Pakistan. Later we were joined by his wife and three of his four children, including a son who is home for the summer from Harvard and a daughter who just graduated cum laude from Radcliffe. Both majored in government...
...part, the answers lie in the fact that the so-called entertainment is never really entertaining. A couple of solid citizens, Yaphet Kotto and Geoffrey Holder, are underemployed as an island dictator cum pusher and his witchdoctor hireling while Jane Seymour, Gloria Hendry and Madeline Smith are comely enough but curiously sexless sex objects. They, like Moore, suffer a sort of weightlessness, a lack of humanness, which is what Sean Connery as 007 lent previous Bond adventures. The raunchy adolescent humor that helped audiences giggle past the ugly inhuman stuff in previous Bond films like Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever...
Departments refuse to admit that a set number of degrees in each classification--summa, magna, and cum--are granted each year, and that this number is arbitrarily imposed. In the Government Department last year, however, of approximately 100 honors candidates, about 36 received magnas or higher. This year, only 78 people stood for honors, and the Department discussed the significant drop at their degree meeting...
...Department dismissed the possibility that the decline in honors candidates meant that there would be less cum awards, and decided that the "22 dropouts" had possible summas and magnas as well. So the Department went on to decide that less magnas and summas should be awarded--about 26 were granted--yet it continued to assert that distinctions are not given arbitrarily...