Word: cum
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...proposal called for a straight grade-point-average requirement across all grades for "Latin" honors such as magna and summa, and another suggested leaving only summa and "cum laude in general studies" as honors with college-wide requirements. The system now requires all honors candidates to both fulfill their particular departmental requirements and achieve grade averages set by the College in areas of "distribution" outside their area of concentration...
...summa cum laude graduate of Brandeis and former Rhodes scholar sees no conflict between his new duties with the Waltham, Mass., school and his teaching responsibilities at Harvard...
Brademas, who served as majority whip of the House until his defeat last November, graduated magna cum laude in government from Harvard...
DIED. Harry Golden, 79, humorist-cum-moralist who used the pages of his one-man newspaper, the Carolina Israelite, to celebrate the vagaries of life and attack racial discrimination, collecting his writings in the bestsellers Only in America (1958), For 2? Plain (1959) and Enjoy, Enjoy! (1960); of a heart attack; in Charlotte, N.C. A Jewish immigrant's son who was reared on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the portly, cigar-chomping Golden gravitated to the South and in 1941 founded the Israelite, which in its 26 years of publication numbered Harry Truman, Earl Warren, Adlai Stevenson...
...meet him in the locker room this afternoon, even though he is probably majoring in Hand Grenades at West Point. Last week, he taught a course in high-pressure quarterbacking, coming in for starter Jerryl Bennett to lead the Cadets to a 23-17 victory. He graduated Summa-Cum-Touchdown in my dream...