Word: cumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After he escaped from the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1967, Ray's style changed; he seemed to have become a cum-laude graduate in criminality. Flush with unaccustomed cash and astute at espying loopholes in the law's vigilance, he rambled across the country using a collection of aliases. Then, after a .30-'06 bullet killed Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis on April 4, spurious radio messages sent Memphis police chasing the wrong way after Ray's 1966 white Mustang...
...these, 768, or 68 per cent will receive honors: 215 cum laude in general studies, 302 cum laude in a special field, 198 magna cum laude, 11 magna cum laude with highest honors and 42 summa cum laude. These proportions are as usual and last year's drastic drop in summas awarded (there were only 25 then) has not been repeated...
...cent of the 292 girls in the class took their degree with honors, a new Radcliffe record. There were 11 summa cum laude degrees, 2 magna cum laude with highest honors, 64 magna cum laude, and 176 cum laude, 84 of these in general studies...
...There was still some life to be had. The Student Council, led by Thomas Matters '43, president, and Adam Yarmolinsky '43, secretary, struggled on with eventful issues; but in October it merely recommended to the Faculty that Harvard adopt a year-long trimester schedule or keep the two semester-cum-twelve week summer period, and was immediately branded "powerless" for its equivocal efforts. On October 5, the Crimson football team locked helmets with mighty Penn, but though Coach Harlow's boys struggled like friends, they lost...
...children. She traveled. She wrote stories. She maintained an animated correspondence with writers and clerics; Mark Twain named Miss Keller and Napoleon "the two most interesting characters of the 19th century." At the turn of the 20th, Helen Keller went to college at Radcliffe, where she was to graduate cum laude...