Word: cumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When all the dignitaries have passed, the seniors and candidates for graduate degrees will follow them into the Theatre. Of the College's graduates, 67 per cent will receive honors: 181 cum laude in general studies, 309 cum laude in a field, 210 magna cum laude, 14 magna cum laude with highest honors, and 45 summa cum laude...
...Again? Luci hurried back to Washington right after the well-guarded gown viewing. Following her back the next day, Lynda and Lady Bird had barely enough time to pick up Lyndon and whisk off to the University of Texas, where Lynda received her bachelor's degree (cum laude) in history-just 33 years after her mother got hers...
Plenty of students agree, even those most deeply involved. Philip Pendleton Ardery Jr., 20, a cum laude (English) Harvard senior who has resigned himself to going into the service ("When rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it"), waxes cynical: "Students really have too good a deal. And with the tests, what you're doing is trying to decide what people have the right to die-and to do that on the basis of anything as arbitrary as intellect seems really wrong...
Walker is invited to be Visiting Writer at Benedict Arnold University, located somewhere east of the Rockies, where some of the freshmen can hardly write their names in the dust with a stick, and where Scrabble, wife-swapping and Red-baiting are the faculty pursuits. With its Disneyland-cum-Mies architecture, a preposterous president, freakish faculty, oafish student body and a Neanderthal athletic program (the coach, accused of bribery, is demoted to full professor), Benedict Arnold seems to offer Walker an escape from the inconsequence and stuffiness of his existence. By rights, he should feel snootily superior to the joint...
Under the present system, degrees are granted according to academic honors (B.A., cum laude, magna, cum laude, and summa cum laude). Students are given their diplomas alphabetically within each category. The new system would change this to alphabetical order regardless of honors, except that summa degrees would be given separately. (Last year, only six students graduated summa...