Word: cum
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...length. The four senior inhabitants of the room are hauled before the Administrative Board. where their actions are scrutinized by a panel of tough but fair administrators. It is regrettable, the Ad Board concludes, but there is only one possible outcome: the entire rooming group, including one summa cum laude candidate in Social Studies, will be required to withdraw, eligible, at best, for readmission within a year. After all, they have clearly violated a good half-dozen of the rules in the student handbook: "radios, television sets, phonographs, and other audible equipment shall be adjusted so as not to disturb...
...Stanford. He had been forced to give up his college plans and take over the family ranch when Sandra's grandfather died. "I only applied to Stanford and no place else," said Sandra. She rushed through her undergraduate work and law studies in just five years, graduating magna cum laude and joining the honorary Society of the Coif, which accepts only the best law students. She won a post on the Stanford Law Review, where she met her future husband John, who was one class behind her. She ranked in the top ten in her class scholastically...
...originally made, denied that he had convinced President Kennedy--then a member of the Board of Overseers--to support the change. The Overseers voted two-to-one in favor of the new diplomas after Kennedy's support became known. Only a protest by the Administrative Board saved the cum laude notations from being set in the English "with honors...
...cast of characters in the plot was, well, odd. The conspirators included a gay vigilante, a mystery-man gunrunner with the novelish name of Sydney Burnett-Alleyne, a nurse cum spy with Irish Republican Army connections, and an ousted Prime Minister with alleged ties to South African industrialists. The gang, it appears, was intent on a coup to capture the impoverished Caribbean island of Dominica (pop. 81,000), a true banana republic (70% of exports) that is physically no bigger than Lexington...
GOOD LUCK with the motivation behind City of Women, Federico Fellini's latest baroque-nightmare-cum-flesh-fantasy. Food for thought and conversation, perhaps, but it yields no neat, coherent conceptual summary--better just to sit back and savor...