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...four children of Theodore and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. At age 6, T.R., his brother Elliott and friend Edith Carow (who would one day be his second wife) watch Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession from the home of T.R.'s grandfather on Manhattan's Union Square. He graduates magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1880 and marries Alice Lee a few months later, on his 22nd birthday. The next year, he becomes the youngest man ever elected to the New York state assembly. A Republican, Roosevelt serves three one-year terms, one as minority leader. During that time, he publishes...
...careful human cultivation is that for many, Eton becomes hard to outgrow: a more intense experience, at a more formative time, than anything that comes after. Nick Fraser, an accomplished documentary filmmaker, has just published The Importance of Being Eton, Inside the World's Most Powerful School, a memoir-cum-essay that probes Eton's lifelong influence. He speaks of classmates who marry each other's sisters in order to remain in a kind of Eton club, of their difficulties in relating to exotic creatures like women and the less privileged, and quotes writer John Le Carré, who taught...
...Steiner graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1954 and from Harvard Law School in 1958. As an undergraduate, Steiner was president of the Signet and a member of the basketball team...
Fourty-two will be awarded cum laude in general studies, while 492 will receive cum laude in their fields of concentration...
Students must have a grade point average of 3.679 or higher to be eligible for a magna cum laude degree or for a cum laude degree in general studies. Graduates must have a grade point average of 3.417 or higher to be eligible for a cum laude degree in their field...