Word: cum
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...business to Harvard tanners, while Tanorama's Square outlet claims it gets at least 80 percent of its business from the Ivory Tower. Geeking away in Lamont may leave you doughy, but these places provide a way to gain a savage tan as you shoot for a summa cum laude...
...there, my father (Carl J., who helped create the West German constitution) was a professor of government there, and the life of the faculty was our neighborhood life. I wasn't that impressed. Anyway, I almost flunked out my freshman year." Friedrich quickly recovered, though, and graduated magna cum laude...
Adam Cohen, current president of the Harvard Law Review and a 1984 magna cum laude at Harvard, came because "there's so much here." Cohen comments, however, that the students tend to be a "very careerist group with a bloodthirsty desire to get ahead." Bok agrees, not happily. He reports that the stated goals on the applications of incoming freshmen were "money first, followed by power and then making a reputation." Once new students are safely aboard, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett notes that they acquire a certain "smugness" and "arrogance" -- as witness a cheer that goes...
Tough stuff, but not uncommon at Harvard, where William Hawkins, '76 and now head of his own California computer-software firm, recalls battling for two years for permission to design a specialized computer-science major for himself alone -- with which he earned magna cum laude. "Harvard was a real sink-or-swim environment," he says. "I learned to be totally self-reliant. The university's idea of personal counseling was, 'What can we do to make you study...
...biggest insider-trading scandal in Wall Street history kept reverberating last week. Litton Industries, the Beverly Hills-based conglomerate, filed a $30 million lawsuit against Shearson Lehman Bros., the finance-cum-brokerage firm, and Dennis Levine, the ex-investment whiz who has already pleaded guilty to a variety of insider-trading charges filed by the U.S. Government. Litton's contention: that in November 1982, while Levine was employed by Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb (now merged into Shearson Lehman), his illicit trading activities helped puff up the price of stock in Itek, an electronics firm, just as Litton was preparing...