Word: cumming
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Before 1961, a student could not ask for the General Studies Honors degree without the formal approval of his department. Now, this endorsement is unnecessary, and in deciding whether to award the cum laude in General Studies, the University places no particular emphasis on the student's performance in his field of concentration. The C.L.G.S. is conferred solely on the basis of how many honors grades a student has received...
...that if an honors-calibre student did not wish to commit himself to a single discipline to the extent of writing a thesis in it, there was an inconsistency in allowing the representatives of that discipline to pass judgment on the student's candidacy for an Honors degree. The cum in General Studies was thought to lie outside the province of the departments, and therefore it seemed only natural that the degree applications should be processed solely in the offices of the College...
...decided that since the departments were not to have anything to do with the C.L.G.S., there should be no discrepancy between the C.L.G.S. requirements imposed upon students concentrating in different fields. A large discrepancy existed at the time of the 1961 revision: some departments would recommend students for the cum in General Studies quite readily; others would give the needed formal approval only with great reluctance...
...example, under the old system almost as many English concentrators received Honors degrees in General Studies as received the standard cum laude in English Literature. Departmental approval was automatic for any senior receiving a mark of 80 or higher on the non-Honors general examination. In Government, on the other hand, it was almost impossible for a student to get his department's endorsement; the only regular exceptions were made for seniors who had been unable to write a thesis because of illness...
Carbon & Kitty Hawk. He was born in 1861 and, of course, was given the best sort of education. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 16, switched to Harvard, graduated magna cum laude in 1882 (the year Franklin Delano Roosevelt, perish the name, was born), went on to Zurich for further studies. Later, he journeyed into Pennsylvania looking for likely investments in oil and gas. Cabot concluded that there was money to be made in byproducts from the refining process. As usual, his judgment turned out to be correct. In 1887 he began manufacturing carbon black as a coloring...