Word: cumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...native of Kansas City, Kans.. McManus trained to write of politico-economics at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C.. where he graduated cum laude and as a Phi Beta Kappa in 1956, at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he took his master's degree in 1958, and during a year as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He joined TIME'S staff in 1959 and wrote the first story of Britain's desire to join the Common Market in 1961 (Aug. 11). From then on, as the Common Market began...
...CLGS program is not "debased" by the present ruling--rather the opposite, for the faculty has at last recognised that very often the thesis is a negative rather than a positive educational experience. But the CRIMSON instead subscribes to the shibboleth that it is better to get a cum laude by writting a thesis than in CLGS. The CRIMSON does indeed "link the idea of the CLGS with that of second-rate performance." It's time that this sort of academic snobbery was snuffed out. The Faculty made the first step, and the CRIMSON should support it. Eric Lacktman...
...dissatisfaction was so deep and so widespread that many Faculty members felt sure their next meeting would bring about the new rule's demise. The prediction, of course, was wrong; but the basis on which it was offered could not have been more correct. The weaknesses in the present Cum Laude in General Studies policy are obvious to most of the Faculty. If this majority did not choose to manifest its opposition in January, its inaction should be attributed to gracious compliance with a hastily called truce, rather than to doubts about political strength...
...into a distinction between programs with, and without, tutorial instruction. The important point was that either the tutorial or the non-tutorial program could lead to an Honors degree--the tutorial, by way of departmental Honors rewarding a competent senior thesis; and the non-tutorial, by way of the Cum Laude in General Studies...
Departments have not yet decided how to grade students who decide not to write a thesis. In many cases, senior tutorial consists entirely of the thesis; but if tutees receive an "E" for an uncompleted thesis, they will have small chance of graduating cum laude in general studies. CLGS requires honors grades in more than two-thirds of the courses taken...