Word: cum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kathy Boudin was destined to be a crusader. Her father Leonard is a prominent lawyer for leftist causes. She was a magna cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr. Her mother recalls: "Kathy did everything cum laude." Kathy's parents have refused to cooperate with police in their search for her, and her mother says only: "We know she is safe...
Alexander, 36, is a brilliant, articulate graduate of Harvard University (cum laude) and Yale Law School. He was appointed chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by President Johnson and was replaced after the Republicans took office...
...suppose your readers are ignorant of the always fascinating and valuable history of grade "reform" at the Harvard Law School, and will not appreciate the full humor of the suggestions reported in your paper on February 4, that there is some unfairness in requiring a B+ average for graduation Cum Laude from the Harvard Law School. A very few years ago the faculty voted to designate as B-all grades 65-68 Previously this was a C grade. This was done on the strength of the argument that the Law School is a graduate school, and it is well known...
...proposal would reduce the requirements for honors at graduation. Law students now must have an A-average to win cum laude, A to win magna cum laude, and A + to win summa cum laude. The new plan would change the requirements to B-, B +, and A respectively...
...Auden modestly on the stump, or in the pulpit, but steadily aware of the dangers of pontificating. In the title poem, he invokes his Age of Anxiety themes, then introduces a second voice to cut himself down: "What fun and games you find it to play/ Jere-miah-cum-Juvenal . . ." Suddenly yet a third voice yawns: "Go to sleep now for God's sake!/ You both will feel better by breakfast time...