Word: cumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl was Margery Jane Michelmore, 23, a magna cum laude graduate of Smith College (1960), who had gone to Nigeria with 36 other Peace Corps pioneers to teach. Although she had undergone seven weeks' training at Harvard to prepare for her new life, Margery was shocked when she first saw Ibadan, a city of many slums and open sewers in the upland jungles of Nigeria. While still brushing up on her Nigerian history at a University College of Ibadan indoctrination course, she wrote to a friend, Robert V. Storer at Cambridge, and crammed 150 vivid words onto...
University of Chicago Law School Graduate Abraham Ribicoff (cum laude, 1933) glanced through the program of the American Council of Education's annual meeting just before taking the rostrum for his address as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. The purpose of the Washington session, said the brochure, was to stimulate cooperation in education-and Ribicoff laughed sourly. Tossing aside his canned speech, he began scolding the presidents and deans of some 1,000 colleges. "I don't think you really care about education or are going to do anything about it. I don't know that...
...cum laude high school graduate, Joyce will shoulder a stiff scholastic load at Holy Cross (subjects: Greek, Latin, German, English, history, theology). He will pay his way by pitching, and he expects to improve on a four-year high school and American Legion record of 59 victories (including seven no-hitters) and 12 losses. The big leagues can wait. "If the arm holds out," says Dick Joyce, "the money should still be there...
...Augustus N. Hand, served with him for years on the Court of Appeals in New York (their fellow judges sometimes referred to them as "the left Hand and the right Hand"). At Harvard, Learned Hand majored in philosophy, studied under Santayana. Josiah Royce and William James, and graduated summa cum laude before moving on to law school. As a young lawyer in an Albany firm, he prospered, but he longed to sit on the other side of the bar. President William Howard Taft spotted him in 1909, named him as a federal district judge when he was only...
...tentative title of a conservative monthly news-cum-history magazine expected to be published this fall by Rodney Campbell, ex-TIME associate editor and son-in-law of the Chicago Tribune's late Publisher Chesser Campbell...