Word: cum
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...giving out a lot of honors degrees come each June, from making a lot of people happy to giving Harvard students better positioning in the post-graduation job competition. The former proposition is absurd, the latter dubious; it is unlikely that a potential employer would weigh the designation cum laude on a resume above all the other characteristics a student would bring to the job, specially if the transcript accompanying the resume is full of E-pluses or B-minuses...
Currently, candidates for degrees cum laude must receive minimum grades "in at least two-thirds of the appropriate completed letter-graded courses outside the field of concentration," as stated in the 1984-85 Handbook for Students. The minimum GPAs for cum laude and magna cum laude degrees are B- and B respectively...
Because candidates for degrees summa cum laude and cum laude in general studies are required to have high grades in each of the three General Education subdivisions--natural sciences, social sciences and humanities--students could currently petition to have the subdivision descriptions twisted to cover courses in which they did well...
Registrar Margaret E. Law used figures and grades from a post year's graduating class to determine the potential impact of the proposed changes. She found that the number of cum laude and cum laude in general studies degrees would have increased, while the number of magnas would decrease and the number of summas would remain the same...
...severe. But Jepsen, a conservative first-termer, had plenty of problems of his own doing. Last year he claimed congressional immunity to beat a Washington traffic ticket, and in June the born-again Christian was forced to confess that he had applied for membership in a Des Moines spa-cum-brothel in 1978. Nor was Jepsen always solid on matters of substance. In 1981, he trumpeted his opposition to the Administration's sale of AWACS radar planes to the Saudis, then voted for the sale. He had vowed he would not vote to raise the federal debt ceiling...